Whois & Analysis for wlsam.com

WLS (890 kHz, "89 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.

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

Generally, it is a receiver or transmitter, an antenna, and some smaller additional equipment necessary to operate them.

Radio stations play a vital role in communication technology as they are heavily relied on to transfer data and information across the world.

Cumulus Media, Inc. (and its subsidiaries, Cumulus Broadcasting LLC, Cumulus Licensing LLC and Broadcast Software International Inc) is an American broadcasting company and is the second largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States (behind iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly Clear Channel Communications).

Cumulus owned 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011.

The company also owns Westwood One.

Cumulus's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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

With an estimated population of 9.4 million people, it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Chicagoland is the area that is closely linked to the city through geographic, social, economic, and cultural ties.