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WMBR
WMBR is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student-run college radio station, licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and broadcasting on 88.1 FM. It is all-volunteer and funded by listener donations and MIT funds. Both students and community members can apply for positions, and like many college radio stations, WMBR offers diverse programming ranging from talk shows to music including RnB to electronic music. As of 2022, the general manager is Claire McLellan-Cassivi and the program director is Shruti Ravikumar. The station's board of trustees is the Technology Broadcasting Corporation, whose members are appointed by the President of MIT. The officers are: President - Marianna Parker; Vice President - Joseph Paradiso; Clerk - Todd Glickman; Treasurer - Shawn Mamros. History ''WMBR'' is the third set of call letters for the station. The first MIT student broadcasting station first signed on as WMIT on November 25, 1946. It had a " carrier current" AM transmitter loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPCH-TV
WPCH-TV (channel 17), branded on-air as Peachtree TV, is an independent television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is owned by locally based Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate and company flagship WANF (channel 46), and low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate WKTB-CD (channel 47). WPCH-TV and WANF share studios on 14th Street Northwest in Atlanta's Atlantic Station district, while WPCH-TV's transmitter is located in the Woodland Hills section of northeastern Atlanta. During its ownership under the Turner Broadcasting System (which owned the station from April 1970 until February 2017), WPCH-TV—then using the WTCG call letters—pioneered the distribution of broadcast television stations retransmitted by communications satellite to cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States, expanding the small independent station into the first national " superstation" on December 17, 1976. (The station eventually became among the first four American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Glickman
Todd Glickman (born June 13, 1956) is a meteorologist whose weather reports can be heard on WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City and internationally at radio.com. He has been a fill-in meteorologist there since May 1979. Early years Glickman grew up in Howard Beach, Queens and then Roslyn Heights, Long Island, NY. He attended Sands Point Academy through sixth grade, then public school in the East Williston School District, graduating from The Wheatley School in 1973. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), and received the S.B. degree with a major in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1977. He studied under Professor Frederick Sanders and researcher Norman Macdonald, with whom he authored a paper on atmospheric convection. Mid-career, he attended Suffolk University (Boston, MA) and received the MBA from its Executive Program in 1988. Career While an undergraduate at MIT, Glickman interned at Boston's WBZ-TV from 1975–1977, under meteorologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |