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'''Kenji Yamamoto''' (山本健誌) is a [[Japan]]ese [[video game music]]ian working for [[Nintendo]]. He is credited with creating the soundtracks of the following games: yes

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*''[[Advance Wars: Dual Strike]]'' (with Yoshito Hirano)

'''WMAQ''' (670 kHz Chicago, Illinois) was a 50,000-watt [[AM radio]] station located in [[Chicago]]. Station motto was "We Must Ask Questions." The station has deep history both with [[NBC]] and [[CBS]] networks.

*''[[Famicom Tantei Club]]''

*''[[Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo|Famicom Tantei Club II]]''

*''[[Galactic Pinball]]''

*''[[Hajimari no Mori]]''

*''[[Mario Kart Advance]]'' (sound support)

*''[[Metroid Fusion]]'' (as sound designer)

*''[[Metroid Prime]]''

*''[[Metroid Prime 2: Echoes]]''

*''[[Metroid: Zero Mission]]'' (with [[Minako Hamano]])

*''[[Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!]]''

*''[[Sakuchi Momoko no Ukiuki Cannibal]]'' (sound support)

*''[[Super Metroid]]'' (with Minako Hamano)

Also, Kenji Yamamoto is composing the soundtrack for the anticipated title ''[[Metroid Prime 3: Corruption]]'' on Wii and will be contributing with other video game composers on [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]].

WMAQ came to life as WGU on April 13, 1922. The station was formed as a joint venture between [[Fair Department Store]] and [[Chicago Daily News]]. Technical problems forced the station quickly off the air. [[Herbert Hoover]] would inaugurate a new antenna and transmitter and give the station the call letters WMAQ.

==Reference(s)==

WMAQ, as a radio pioneer, would have many firsts:

*[http://ng-stg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gm/name/ya.html]: Credited Works (in Japanese)

*[http://metroid.retrofaction.com/resources/m4staff.php]: Metroid Fusion staff credits

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKwxeCWKHl4&NR]: Castlevania 64 staff credits

==External links==

- First to broadcast [[Chicago Cubs]] games. April 20, 1925 was a Cubs vs [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] game called by Hal Totten.

*[http://www.ocremix.org/composer/id/82/ Composer profile] at [[OverClocked ReMix]]

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NBC would purchase the station in 1931 as an affiliate. WMAQ was boosted by original local and network programming. Marian and Jim Jordan started at WMAQ with a local show and later would move on to form [[Fibber McGee and Molly]]. [[Amos and Andy]] was also a popular program.

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[[WMAQ-TV]] would move from experiment to television pioneer. As television made waves around the nation, radio stations like WMAQ shifted to recorded music. The 60s saw WMAQ as an adult rock station. A 1975 format change saw WMAQ taking on [[WJJD-AM]] in the country market. The 70s and 80s saw [[Chicago White Sox]] broadcasts at night.

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1985 saw a transition to an talk format. After 57 years, NBC would sell WMAQ to [[Group W]] in 1988. Westinghouse switched WMAQ to an all news format. A series of mergers in the 90s would doom the station. Westinghouse would later buy [[CBS]]. [[Viacom]] then purchases CBS in 1999. With the merger, Viacom was over the limit of stations in the Chicago market.

August 1st, 2000: The NBC chimes are sounded at 6AM. WMAQ radio goes off the air.

==Further Reading==

* [http://www.scottchilders.com/timecapsule/TCWMAQ.htm Scott Childers on WMAQ AM History.]

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