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WXRT, also known as XRT and 93-XRT is an adult album alternative (AAA) radio station in Chicago, Illinois. [1]

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Adult album alternative

Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day is an annual celebration in some European and Western countries commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Breakfast with the Beatles

Breakfast with the Beatles is a popular programming segment format on FM radio in cities in the United States.

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Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (abbreviated as CN since 2004) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago metropolitan area

The Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, is the metropolitan area that includes the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs.

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Entercom

Entercom is a publicly traded American broadcasting company and radio network based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Freeform (radio format)

Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests.

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HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

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Infinity Broadcasting Corporation

Infinity Broadcasting Corporation was a radio company that existed from 1972 until 2005.

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Lewis University

Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States.

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Lin Brehmer

Lin Brehmer (born August 19, 1954) is a disc jockey and radio personality at WXRT in Chicago, Illinois.

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Mario

() is a fictional character in the ''Mario'' video game franchise, owned by Nintendo and created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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NBC Tower

The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address for the building) in downtown Chicago's Magnificent Mile area.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. (also known by its full title Nick Jr. Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is run by the Nickelodeon Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom, the channel's ultimate owner headquartered in New York City.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.

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Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Playboy Enterprises

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is an American privately held global media and lifestyle company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Progressive rock (radio format)

Progressive rock is a radio station programming format that emerged in the late 1960s,Thomas Staudter,, The New York Times, March 24, 2002.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Saturday Morning Flashback

Saturday Morning Flashback is a program airing from 9 AM until 12 noon Saturday mornings on Chicago radio station WXRT.

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TBS (U.S. TV channel)

TBS is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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Terri Hemmert

Terri Hemmert (born April 28, 1948) is an American radio personality, musicologist, and instructor at Columbia College Chicago.

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Two Prudential Plaza

Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper that was built in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1990.

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Viacom

Viacom Inc. is an American multinational media conglomerate with interests primarily in film and television.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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WBBM (AM)

WBBM (780 AM) is an all-news radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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WBBM-FM

WBBM-FM, known on air as "B96", is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station in Chicago owned by Entercom.

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WBMX (FM)

WBMX (104.3 FM) is a classic hip hop radio station in Chicago, Illinois.

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WCFS-FM

WCFS-FM (105.9 FM), known on-air as "WBBM Newsradio 780 & 105.9", is a radio station licensed to Elmwood Park, Illinois and serving the Chicago, Illinois market.

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Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a US based nuclear power company formed in 1998 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

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WMAQ (AM)

WMAQ was an AM radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and broadcast at 670 kHz with 50,000 watts.

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WSCR

WSCR (670 kHz, 670 The Score) is a commercial sports talk radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, and owned by Entercom.

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WUSN

WUSN (99.5 FM) is a country radio station in Chicago, Illinois.

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1947 in radio

The year 1947 in radio involved some significant events.

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875 North Michigan Avenue

875 North Michigan Avenue, built as and still commonly referred to as the John Hancock Center, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRT

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