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WMAQ was an AM radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and broadcast at 670 kHz with 50,000 watts. The station was in existence from 1922 to 2000, and was the oldest surviving broadcast outlet in Chicago. It was a class A clear channel station, and could be heard, particularly at night, over most of the eastern United States. WMAQ was owned in its later years by CBS Radio, but for much of its life it was owned by National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and later Westinghouse Broadcasting.

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rdfs:comment	WMAQ was an AM radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and broadcast at 670 kHz with 50,000 watts. The station was in existence from 1922 to 2000, and was the oldest surviving broadcast outlet in Chicago. It was a class A clear channel station, and could be heard, particularly at night, over most of the eastern United States. WMAQ was owned in its later years by CBS Radio, but for much of its life it was owned by National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and later Westinghouse Broadcasting.
foaf:name	WMAQ
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alias	67 WMAQ (mid-1980s) 67-Q (early 1970s) First in Chicago (1940's) WMAQ All News 67 (late 1980s–mid-1990s) *WMAQ All News 670 (late 1990s–August 1, 2000)
broadcast area	Chicago Metropolitan Area
broadcast network	CBS Radio, Inc. CNN NBC Red Network
broadcast station class	A
call sign meaning	We Must Answer Questions
facility id	25445(xsd:integer)
first air date	1922-04-13(xsd:dateTime)
former call sign	WGU (1922)
frequency (Hz)	670000(xsd:double)
owner	CBS Radio, Inc. (Group W) National Broadcasting Company Chicago Daily News The Fair Store
programme format	Pop Standard dbpedia:All-news_radio Country music dbpedia:Adult_contemporary_music dbpedia:Talk_radio
sister station	WXRT WKQX WBBM-TV WMAQ-TV WBBM WBBM-FM
slogan	You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world (All News Era from late 1980s–August 1, 2000)
thumbnail	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alvin_Meyer4.jpg?width=300

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