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WRLL
Broadcast area	Chicago metropolitan area
Branding	Real Oldies 1690
Frequency	1690 (kHz)
First air date	October 8, 2003
Format	Oldies
ERP	10 kW day / 1 kW night
Class	B
Callsign meaning	W (required for radio stations licensed east of the Mississippi River) ReaL OLdies (on-air branding)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	http://www.realoldies1690.com

WRLL (1690 AM) was an oldies station licenced to Berwyn, Illinois, and serving the greater Chicago area. It was owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications. On September 18, 2006, the station became the new frequency for WVON. The call letters are now warehoused on 1450AM, WVON's old frequency.

"Real Oldies 1690", as it called itself on the air, played music from the 1950s and early 1960s. It broadcast from sister station WGRB's transmitter location. "Real Oldies" was also a format aired by WSAI (now sports/talk "1530 Homer" WCKY (AM))in Cincinnati and WCOL-AM(now talk station WYTS) in Columbus, Ohio. "Dangerous Dan" Allen created the format initially for WSAI who was also its program director and air personality there.

WRLL signed on as a station on the extended AM band on October 8, 2003. Until August 16, 2006 the station featured radio legends Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwardsin the morning drive, as well as other legendary Chicago area radio personalities, mostly from WLS, along with suburban radio mainstay Len O'Kelly (overnights) and Ron Smith (evenings) with his weekly "Foreign Friday" feature.

The oldies format ended at 12:00 AM CST on September 16th 2006.

WRLL's former oldies format continues to stream at http://www.realoldies1690.com

WVON 1690 AM

WRLL had long been the subject of format switch rumors. Some people thought that it would go off the air and be replaced by progressive talk, featuring programming from Air America Radio in March 2005, but the format instead was picked up by WCPT 850. During the month of August 2006, many of the station's on-air staffers left the station as they announced a pending format change.

Finally, on August 15, it was announced that another radio station, African-American talk-formatted WVON, would move its format, talk show hosts and call letters from their longtime spot on the dial at 1450 AM to 1690 AM, effective September 18, 2006. WVON signed an agreement with Clear Channel which would allow them to lease the station with an option to buy, and obtain marketing, promotional and production assistance from them as well.

External links

• Official website
• Online webstream
• "It's a whole new day for WVON at 1690 AM " (Chicago Sun-Times, August 16, 2006)
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WRLL
• Radio Locator Information on WRLL
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WRLL
• Interview with Tommy Edwards

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