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WGN (720 AM) is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is the only radio station owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns the flagship television station WGN 9, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and Chicago magazine locally. WGN's transmitter is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The station has a news-talk format and is the flagship station of Chicago Cubs baseball, Chicago Blackhawks hockey, Northwestern University football and men's basketball, and was the longtime Chicago outlet for Paul Harvey until his death on February 28, 2009.
Since around 1990, WGN has been mainly a news and talk radio station. WGN broadcasts news, weather, traffic and sports every hour. Until the passing of Ron Santo in December 2010, he and Pat Hughes served as the play-by-play team for all games of the Chicago Cubs, and the broadcasts were known as the Pat and Ron Show.
WGN is a high-powered clear channel AM station (50,000 watts), which during nighttime hours is often audible over much of the USA, parts of Canada, and sometimes as far away as Australia, Europe and South America.[citation needed] The station also has a 24/7 Internet stream on its website, which carries the station's broadcast programming except for commercial breaks and Cubs games, when public service announcements, station promotions, host-read commercials and alternate programming, is played instead.
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sich treffen auf'n kurzen Spaß
sich nicht mehr aus den Augen lassen
verraten viel und wollen was.
Es gibt Momente, den' sollte man glauben
da muß man wagen, was man sich nie traut
in der richtigen Preislage lächeln
für einen Dollar, bis auf die Haut.
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mir egal, was man von mir denkt
keine Gnade, wenn ich Funken schlage
bin ich so, wie mich keiner kennt.
Wenn der Himmel lautlos einstürzt
brauch der Mut einen Whisky mehr
so vergißt man die feinen Manieren
und geht stillschweigend hinterher.
Man darf Frauen nie überraschen
das ist gefährlich, das habe sie gern
auf festem Boden auszurutschen
ist im Fallen fliegen zu lern.
Da kenn ich keine Gnade, keine Gnade
mir egal, was man von mir denkt
keine Gnade, wenn ich Funken schlage