Feder: WBBM Newsradio starts beaming from Bloomingdale
Posted July 19, 2019 1:00 am
Listeners aren't likely to tell the difference, but all-news WBBM 780-AM began broadcasting Thursday from a new radio tower just off Army Trail Road in Bloomingdale, Robert Feder writes.
In a move that took nearly two years to complete, the Entercom all-news station dismantled its former transmitter a few miles east in Itasca and sold the property to a developer for $46 million.
The nondescript white brick bunker and 680-foot radio tower in Itasca had been beaming WBBM's signal since 1942.
In Bloomingdale, the station now shares a transmitter site with Entercom sports/talk WSCR 670-AM.
Get the full report, and more Chicago media news, at robertfeder.com.
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