WEUR

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WEUR (1490 AM) is a time-brokered radio station licensed to Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The station serves the Chicago metropolitan area, and is owned by Daniela Wojcik, through licensee CSWWII, LLC.[1]

Programming

The majority of the station's programming is Polish language news, talk, and sports.[2] They feature polka music on the weekends with the long running Eddie Blazonczyk Polka Show hosted by Tish Blazonczyk,[3]

WEUR is the home of the Hagerty Family Irish Program, the longest running Irish program in the United States.[2] This program has been on the station every Saturday morning since 1951.[4]

History

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WEUR's tower atop the Oak Park Arms

The station began broadcasting October 7, 1950.[5] The station's call sign was originally WEBS, but before going on the air the call sign was changed to WOPA to reflect the location of its studios.[6] The studios and antenna were in the former Oak Park Arms Hotel, now a retirement community.[6]

Pervis Spann began his radio career on WOPA in 1959.[7][8]

In 1984, the station's call sign was changed to WBMX.[9]

In January 1987, the station was sold to the Polish National Alliance for $2 million, and its call sign was changed to WPNA on May 1, 1987.[10][9] WPNA was the home of the long-running Chet Gulinski Show, which featured polka music and was quite popular in Chicago's Eastern European communities.[11][12]

On May 25, 2022, the Polish National Alliance announced the sale of WPNA to Daniela Wojcik's CSWWII, LLC for $725,000.[13] The sale was consummated on August 1, 2022. Alliance Communications, which still owns 103.1 WPNA-FM, retained the rights to the WPNA call sign and intellectual property.[14] The station changed its call sign to WEUR on August 31, 2022.

References

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  2. ↑ a b "About Us", WPNA. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Eddie Blazonczyk Polka Show", WPNA. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ Curry, Cathy. "Chicago's First Family of Irish Radio", Irish American News, Chicago, May 2011. Retrieved on October 23, 2014.
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  7. ↑ "Pervis Spann", The Blues Foundation. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  8. ↑ Whiteis, David. "Not So Smooth Operator", Chicago Reader. January 18, 2001. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
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  10. ↑ "Changing Hands", Broadcasting. February 9, 1987. p. 118. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Chet Gulinski, Host of Radio Polka Show", Chicago Tribune. August 14, 1999. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  12. ↑ "WPNA AM 1490", Radio Chicago. Fall 1989. p. 25. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  13. ↑ Jacobson, Adam "Alliance Agrees To Sale of Chicago AM Serving Polish Community", "www.rbr.com", May 25, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Station Sales Week Of 5/27", "www.radioinsight.com", July 27, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.

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