I hear of WXRT Chicago periodically still, even though I've been just out of range for quite some time now. They were doing an amazing mixture of music when what is now called "classic rock" was maintstream pop through the 70s. (Connection for me to the thread is Zenith->Chicago->Radio, although as asynchro has pointed out, that seems to have been a paper tiger in the name "Zenith Radio Corporation" that one finds on the paper labels on the bottom of so many of those outstanding little plastic boxes.)
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Yes, WXRT is still around in Chicago, as "93XRT" FM. I live in Ohio, but I know some things about WXRT as I frequent 100000watts.com and have been interested in radio as long as I can remember (I am also an amateur radio operator, having held a ham license since 1972). Chicago also had a station known as WMAQ-FM, which became, in order, WNIS-FM (the Chicago affiliate of NBC's short-lived National News and Information Service news network, which was active briefly in the '70s) and then, IIRC, WKQX-FM101.1, the calls it now holds. (WMAQ-AM670 was an all-news station briefly in the late '90s, before going all-sports as WSCR-670 "The Score".) WMAQ-FM became WKQX after NBC was sold to General Electric. WMAQ-AM-FM (and all other NBC-operated radio stations) were sold to Emmis Communications after the original NBC network was sold.
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