Event

Name: WCPT 20th Anniversary
Start: 2025-05-03T11:00
End: 2025-05-03T15:00
Location: Max and Bennys Restaurant

WCPT 20th Anniversary

We hope to see you Saturday, May 3rd at Max & Bennys Restaurant, Deli & Bakery in Northbrook, Illinois. Well be celebrating 20 years on the air with a live broadcast from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.!

Hal Sparks will kick off the four-hour broadcast, hosting The Hal Sparks Radio Program live in person between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Hal will be followed by a special broadcast featuring CPT hosts Richard Chew, Joan Esposito, Patti Vasquez and Scott Duff with guests from our 20-year history.

Tickets will be $20 each. Seating will be limited and will sell out quickly. You can buy tickets starting Monday, March 10.

Station History

WCPT launched the progressive talk format in 2005 as an affiliate of the Air America network and soon began airing nationally broadcast radio programs hosted by Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Al Franken, Alan Colmes, Janeane Garofalo, Mark Maron, Ron Reagan (son of the former president), and even Jerry Springer.

Beginning in 2008, WCPT produced programs hosted by Chicago media fixtures like Dick Kay and subsequently launched the stations longest-running local shows, The Hal Sparks Radio Program and Out Chicago with Scott Duff and Ellen Miller.

Today WCPT is the only progressive outlet in the Chicago broadcast market and is the largest progressive player on the national radio scene, with the partnership of the Heartland Signal digital newsroom.

Tune in to hear programs hosted locally by Richard Chew, Joan Esposito, Patti Vasquez, Hal Sparks, and Edwin Eisendrath, as well as nationally syndicated legends Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, and Randi Rhodes. The station is also the Chicago radio home of Rick Smith, Matt McNeil, the long-running Democracy Now, and much more. Find our full schedule and program times at heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/schedule.