WSBC is a radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

  broadcasting a Variety

Variety (radio)

The term variety as a radio format is loosely defined as a format that plays music across numerous genera.Freeform variety is associated with a wide range of programming including talk, sports, and music from a wide spectrum. This format is usually found on smaller, non-commercial...

 format. Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation.

The station features broadcasts in a variety of languages, principally Russian on weekdays, 7 a.m - 10 a.m. and noon - 6 p.m. Weekends also have broadcasts in Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Romanian.

WSBC hired the nation's first full-time African-American radio announcer, Jack Cooper, in 1929.

The call letters acronym referenced its first owner, the World Storage Battery Company.

For many years, WSBC shared time on its frequency with stations WCRW

WCRW

WCRW was a "shared time" AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois; sharing its frequency with two other stations, , each broadcasting a part of the day. Clinton White, a radio engineer, started the station in 1926; it initially operated on 720 KHZ from studios at Waveland and Pine Grove on Chicago's...

 and WEDC

WEDC

WEDC, and its sister shared-time radio stations, WCRW and WSBC, are an important part of United States radio history. They operated as "shared time stations" for their entire existence; this was not uncommon in the early days of radio, but very rare in more modern times. They were also foreign...

. By 1998, WSBC's owners had bought out the latter two stations and established WSBC as a full-time operation.