WLS

WLS is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media, WLS has its studios in the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood, and its non-directional broadcast tower is located on the southern edge of Tinley Park, Illinois.WLS is a Class A station broadcasting on the clear-channel frequency of 890 kHz with 50,000 watts of power using C-QUAM AM Stereo. The station's daytime groundwave service contour covers portions of five states while at night its signal routinely reaches 38 states via skywave. The station's programming is also available to listeners in the Chicago metropolitan area with an HD Radio receiver via a simulcast on the HD2 subchannel of sister station WLS-FM. Despite different owners and affiliations, 89 WLS, ABC owned-and-operated ABC 7 Chicago and ESPN Radio owned-and-operated ESPN Chicago maintain a strong partnership.