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| - WGN (AM) is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
- WGN (720 AM) is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It's owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns the flagship TV station WGN-TV, the Chicago Tribune newspaper & Chicago magazine locally. WGN's transmitter is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The station has a news/talk format & is the flagship station of the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Blackhawks, Northwestern University football & men's basketball & was the longtime flagship station of Paul Harvey until his death on February 28, 2009. WGN is usually the top rated radio station in Chicago & is 1 of only a handful of American talk radio stations to have all of it's programming originating locally.
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| - WGN (720 AM) is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It's owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns the flagship TV station WGN-TV, the Chicago Tribune newspaper & Chicago magazine locally. WGN's transmitter is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The station has a news/talk format & is the flagship station of the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Blackhawks, Northwestern University football & men's basketball & was the longtime flagship station of Paul Harvey until his death on February 28, 2009. WGN is usually the top rated radio station in Chicago & is 1 of only a handful of American talk radio stations to have all of it's programming originating locally. Since around 1990, WGN has been mainly a news/talk radio station. WGN broadcasts news, weather, traffic & sports every hour. Pat Hughes & Ron Santo serve as the play-by-play team for all games of the Chicago Cubs & the broadcasts are known as the Pat & Ron Show. WGN is also the radio home of Northwestern Wildcats football & basketball games. WGN is a high-powered clear channel AM station (50,000 watts), which during nighttime hours is often audible over much of the USA, parts of Canada & sometimes as far away as Australia & South America. The station also has a 24/7 Internet stream on it's website, which carries the station's broadcast programming except for commercial breaks & Cubs games, when public service announcements, station promotions, host-read commercials & alternate programming, is played instead. WGN is responsible for activation of the Chicagoland Emergency Alert System when hazardous weather alerts, disaster area declarations & child abductions are issued.
- WGN (AM) is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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