WCGO

WCGO

City	Evanston, Illinois
Broadcast area	Chicago, Illinois
Branding	AM 1590 WCGO
Slogan	WCGO is Chicago
Frequency	1590 kHz
First air date	1947
Format	Talk/Ethnic
Power	10,000 watts day 2,500 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	35447
Transmitter coordinates	42°1′20.00″N 87°42′43.00″W / 42.0222222°N 87.7119444°W / 42.0222222; -87.7119444
Callsign meaning	W ChicaGO
Former callsigns	WNMP (1947-70s) WLTD (70s-1979) WONX (1979-2009)
Owner	Pollack Broadcasting (William Pollack) (Evanston Broadcasting LLC)
Website	http://1590wcgo.com/

WCGO (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Talk format. Licensed to Evanston, Illinois, United States, it serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by William Pollack's Pollack Broadcasting, through licensee Evanston Broadcasting LLC.

History

The station was launched September 29, 1947, as WNMP,^[1] which had a light-classical and beautiful music format, along with broadcasting college sports on Saturday afternoons. State Representative Harry Semrow was one of the early owners. The station changed hands several times, and the call sign was changed to WLTD in the early 1970s. In April 1970 Chuck Schaden's first "Those Were The Days" program aired on WNMP. It continued on WLTD until 1975, when the station changed format.

On April 9, 1979, the station's call sign was changed to WONX.

On April 10, 2009, the previous WCGO on 1600, also owned by Kovas, went silent. On April 13, 2009, the call sign was changed to WCGO. With 1600 now vacant, WCGO on 1590 AM was able to increase daytime power to 10,000 Watts. Nighttime power is 2,500 watts using a four-tower directional antenna array.^[2]

WCGO began producing talk radio shows starting on September 2, 2014 including "The Franklin Raff Show," "The Geoff Pinkus Show," "Legal Eagles" with William Pelarenos, and the legendary "Milt Rosenberg" who had previously hosted "Extension 720" on WGN-AM for 37 years.

The current daily talk line-up includes "The Kate Dalley Show", "French and Friends", and the nationally syndicated "Coast to Coast AM" with George Noory from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. every night.

Gallery

WONX logo used until 2009
WCGO logo, 2009-2014
"French and Friends" host Daniel French
WCGO Sports Director Kevin Burgess
Dennis "Sonar" Greene

External links

References

↑ "WNMP Started" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 6, 1947. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
↑ http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WCGO

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