WSBC is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation. The station features broadcasts in a variety of languages, principally Russian on weekdays, 7 a. m - 10 a.m. and noon - 6 p.m. Weekends also have broadcasts in Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Romanian. WSBC hired the nation's first full-time African-American radio announcer, Jack Cooper, in 1929.

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  • WSBC is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation. The station features broadcasts in a variety of languages, principally Russian on weekdays, 7 a. m - 10 a.m. and noon - 6 p.m. Weekends also have broadcasts in Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Romanian. WSBC hired the nation's first full-time African-American radio announcer, Jack Cooper, in 1929. The call letters acronym referenced its first owner, the World Storage Battery Company. For many years, WSBC shared time on its frequency with stations WCRW and WEDC. By 1998, WSBC's owners had bought out the latter two stations and established WSBC as a full-time operation.
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  • WSBC is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation. The station features broadcasts in a variety of languages, principally Russian on weekdays, 7 a. m - 10 a.m. and noon - 6 p.m. Weekends also have broadcasts in Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Romanian. WSBC hired the nation's first full-time African-American radio announcer, Jack Cooper, in 1929.
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