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“WGN Radio Theatre Spooktacular” to Air on Halloween

Nexstar Media’s WGN-AM, Chicago will air “WGN Radio Theatre Spooktacular with Carl Amari” featuring hair-raising golden age of radio shows on Tuesday, October 31 from 8:00 pm to 1:00 am. Theim five-hour special will include episodes from “Lights Out,” one of the first radio horror programs, “Suspense,” “Inner Sanctum Mystery,” “The Whistler,” and “The Sealed Book,” which originally aired on April 14, 1945, on WGN Radio. Host Carl Amari has spent decades licensing and preserving original radio broadcasts and is the curator of the Classic Radio Club and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. He also hosts WGN Radio Theatre featuring two classic radio shows on Sundays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.