50 Years of WBBM News Radio

From Robert Feder's column this morning...

Current and former employees of WBBM 780-AM will gather tonight to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Entercom station’s all-news format. Following the lead of CBS Radio stations in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, WBBM Newsradio’s actual launch date was May 8, 1968. “It was a learning experience getting into it and getting it all set up,” recalled news anchor John Hultman, who joined the station three months earlier. “The format has changed a little over the years, but we are telling people what they need to know — about traffic and weather, about sports, about the stock market, about the breaking stories.” Tonight’s 50th anniversary celebration at the new Chicago Architecture Center is by invitation only.