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WMVP (1000 AM) is the callsign of a commercial radio station in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is owned by ABC, Inc. and operated by ESPN Radio. Its transmitter is located in Downers Grove.〔 The station broadcasts live sports talk, both locally and nationally. Daily programming consists of talk shows that are both national and local. Mike and Mike in the Morning and the Scott Van Pelt show are done by ESPN, while Waddle & Silvy, and Carmen Jurko and Harry are more focused on Chicago sports. It is also currently the flagship station of the Chicago Bulls. WMVP also airs the Northwestern Wildcats football games whenever flagship AM station WGN is unable to air the games due to other broadcast agreements. Its former call sign was WCFL, for the Chicago Federation of Labor. The station billed itself as "The Voice of Labor" from its inception until its sale to Mutual in 1978.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCFL )〕 During its years as a Top 40 station, like its rival WLS, WCFL's powerful nighttime signal enabled it to be heard by many listeners far outside of the Metro Chicago area. And while it was primarily a Top 40 station, WCFL featured a Sunday evening program of progressive rock music called "The Ron Britain Subterranean Circus". The word "subterranean" was in reference to WCFL featuring "underground" music, which was the term used to refer to then-emerging album oriented rock music format. This genre of music was almost exclusively carried by FM stations, making WCFL being among the few AM stations to carry album cuts as opposed to singles. ==The sale of WCFL to Mutual== On March 15, 1976, after two years of falling ratings, WCFL abruptly dropped its Top 40 format in favor of "The World's Most Beautiful Music," leaving WLS once again as Chicago's only AM Top 40 station.〔(YouTube-audio of Larry Lujack and the end of Rock on WCFL-March 15, 1976 )〕 Station management released all disc jockeys who did not have "no cut" clauses in their contracts with the official explanation of the format change as "being more in keeping with the labor movement".〔 Larry Lujack, still under contract with the station, stayed on at WCFL playing easy listening music until moving back to WLS in September 1976. This format won few listeners from FM beautiful music stations such as WLOO, and by 1978 had been replaced by a gold-based adult contemporary format. WCFL and the Chicago Federation of Labor enjoyed the support of Mayor Richard J. Daley throughout his 1955-1976 administration. He proclaimed January 11, 1966 "WCFL Day in Chicago" to mark the 40th anniversary of the station.〔 In 1976, when it became evident it was time for the Federation to sell the radio station, Federation President William A. Lee turned to his long-time friend, Mayor Daley, for advice.〔 After deciding its profit margin was too small for the Chicago Federation of Labor to maintain, WCFL was sold April 3, 1978 to the Mutual Broadcasting System, at the time a subsidiary of the Amway Corporation.〔 The history of the first and longest-lived labor radio station was over; after nearly 52 years, the "Voice of Labor" had been stilled.〔 The station began to identify itself as "Mutual/CFL." A magazine-type news/talk format was adopted, with sports talk in the evening hours and Larry King overnight, but ratings remained low. In 1982, WCFL flipped to an MOR format playing standards and non-rock hits of the '50s and '60s mixed in with some softer rock and roll oldies and soft '70s and '80s AC cuts, and even a few currents. Ratings were still low, so WCFL evolved by the end of 1983 to an adult contemporary format. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WMVP」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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