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WSID
WOLB (1010 AM broadcasting, AM) is an Talk radio, urban talk radio station in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. The station is owned by Urban One and broadcasts from studios in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, Woodlawn and a transmitter in the Orangewood section of east Baltimore. History WSID WSID launched at 1570 kHz on November 27, 1947. Owned by Sidney H. Tinley, Jr., (Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards, Guide to reading History Cards) the station was in Essex, Maryland, Essex and broadcast with 1,000 watts during the daytime on 1570 kHz. The station's location became part of its argument against prosecution for broadcasting crime news in 1948. An old Baltimore law prohibited the practice, and five Baltimore-area stations were cited for contempt of the law; Essex-based WSID claimed the Baltimore city court lacked jurisdiction over the station. Ultimately, it was found not guilty, though the other stations in the proceeding were cited. The same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WERQ-FM
WERQ-FM (92.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercial broadcasting, commercial radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. It features an urban contemporary radio format and is owned by Urban One of Silver Spring, Maryland, the largest broadcasting company serving African American audiences in the United States. The radio studio, radio studios are located in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, Woodlawn (they were previously located at Cathy Hughes Plaza in downtown Baltimore). WERQ-FM has an effective radiated power of 37,000 watts. The transmitter is on Park Heights Avenue at Boarman Avenue in the Park Heights section of Baltimore. WERQ-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology; the HD2 digital subchannel carries urban gospel programming from co-owned WWIN (AM), WWIN, while the HD3 subchannel simulcasts the black talk radio, talk programming of WOLB. History WYOU and WSID-FM The station signed on the air on January 30, 1961. WYOU was the sister station to WSID (1010 AM), initiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMET-TV
WMET-TV was a television station operating on channel 24 in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1967 to 1972. It was owned by the United Broadcasting Company and served as a semi-satellite of its WOOK-TV/WFAN-TV in Washington, D.C., with some locally originated programs. Due to a series of financial and license difficulties at United, WMET-TV closed in January 1972, a month before WFAN-TV. History Construction permit Even though the station did not come on the air until March 1967, WMET-TV's construction permit was issued more than 13 years prior in December 1953, as WTLF on channel 18. The channel specified on the permit was changed from 18 to 24 in 1961, as part of a four-way shuffle that primarily served to cluster the operating TV channels in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area, by changing channels 55 and 71 there to 21 and 33. Activity was minimal for most of the first decade. In 1962, United turned its efforts to constructing WOOK-TV, channel 14 in Washington, D.C., and noted tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocko Henderson
Douglas "Jocko" Henderson (March 8, 1918July 15, 2000) was an American radio disc jockey, businessman, and hip hop music pioneer. Early life Henderson grew up in Baltimore, where both of his parents were teachers. Radio broadcasting Henderson began his broadcast career in 1952 at Baltimore station WSID, and in 1953 began broadcasting in Philadelphia on WHAT.Douglas 'Jocko' Henderson, 82; a pioneering radio personality '''', July 18, 2000. He hosted a show called '' Jocko's Rocket Ship Show'' out of New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country at 2.84 million residents. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region together with the surrounding county that shares its name. The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there. People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe and established the Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLXE
WLXE is a radio station broadcasting on 1600 kHz in the medium wave AM band. Its studios and transmitters are located in Rockville, Maryland, and it serves the Washington metropolitan area. WLXE broadcasts music programming in the Spanish language. Its transmitter and antenna array are located off Hungerford Drive (Maryland Route 355), near the northern border of the city of Rockville. WLXE is under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting. History The station was established in 1947 as Silver Spring-based WOOK, the first station of Richard Eaton's United Broadcasting with African American programming. Four years later, Eaton bought WINX, a station in Washington, D.C. proper. In order to retain both stations and meet multiple ownership rules, the Silver Spring station license was relocated to Rockville, Maryland—which under pre-1950 Census Bureau guidelines was not part of the Washington metropolitan area—on 1600 kHz. Additionally, Eaton switched the two stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIOO
WIOO (1000 AM), known as "Country Gold FM & AM", WIOO is a commercial AM radio station licensed to serve Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The call sign stands for the station's former long-time branding, "W-100", referring to its position on the AM dial. WIOO airs "country gold" format, playing country music from approximately 5–50 years ago. The station is affiliated with Westwood One, and with Motor Racing Network, and Performance Racing Network for extensive NASCAR coverage. WIOO is a "daytimer", broadcasting at full power from local sunrise to local sunset, and at reduced power from local sunset until 45 minutes later (during "critical hours"), after which it signs off to protect clear channel station WMVP in Chicago from skywave interference. The station's programming is simulcast 24 hours a day on FM translators 97.9 W250AP and 107.3 W297CO both in Carlisle. WIOO also simulcasts the majority of its programming on translator 93.9 W230AX, licensed to serve Shippensburg, Pennsylv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Headline News
HLN is an American basic cable network. Owned by CNN Worldwide, the network primarily carries true-crime programming, recently drifting away from limited live news programming. The channel was originally launched on January 1, 1982, by Turner Broadcasting as CNN2 (later renamed Headline News or CNN Headline News), a sister network to CNN that broadcast a looping, half-hour cycle of segments covering various news topics. In 2005, HLN began to diverge from this format and air more personality-based programs, including a primetime block featuring pundits such as Glenn Beck and legal commentator Nancy Grace. In the mid-2010s, HLN repositioned itself as a social media-centric network, highlighting headlines popular on social networks, and introducing social media-themed shows. Under CNN president Jeff Zucker, the channel began to backpedal on this programming in 2016, gradually shifting to a focus on crime, "regional" headlines, and entertainment stories (in contrast to CNN's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 Record chart, music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock music, rock, pop music, pop, or Urban contemporary, urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary, Urban contemporary music, urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is the List of municipalities in New Hampshire, most populous city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Located on the banks of the Merrimack River, it had a population of 115,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Manchester is the tenth-most populous city in New England. Along with the city of Nashua, New Hampshire, Nashua, it is one of two county seat, seats of New Hampshire's most populous county, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Hillsborough County. The Manchester–Nashua metropolitan area has approximately 423,000 residents and lies near the northern end of the Northeast megalopolis. Manchester was first named by the merchant and inventor Samuel Blodgett, Samuel Blodget(t), eponym of Samuel Blodget Park and Blodget Street in the city's North End. His vision was to create a great industrial center similar to that of the original Manchester in England, which was the world's first industrialized city. During the Industrial Revolution in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Steinberg
Melvin A. Steinberg (born October 4, 1933) is an American politician who served as the fifth lieutenant governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995 under Governor William Donald Schaefer. He previously served as the president of the Maryland State Senate from January 1983 to 1987, and a member of the State Senate from 1967 until his election to the position of lieutenant governor. Steinberg graduated from the University of Baltimore with an A.A. degree in 1952 and with a J.D. degree in 1955. Steinberg’s relationship with Governor Schaefer was strained, with each publicly criticising the other and extensive coverage being devoted to their personal relationship. Despite their differences, they worked together for eight years (1987–1995), winning two elections in the process. Steinberg ran for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1994 launching his campaign pledging a war on crime, but was defeated by Parris Glendening, who went on to become governor. Steinberg then took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFAB (Miami)
WFAB was a radio station in Miami, Florida. Broadcasting on 990 kHz, the station was branded as "La Fabulosa" and served the Cuban community in Miami. It operated from 1962 to 1977, after which its license was revoked by the Federal Communications Commission for billing improprieties. History Before going on air Louis G. Jacobs obtained the construction permit for a new 5,000-watt radio station to serve Miami and South Miami in 1958, selecting the call sign WFAB for the new station. In 1959, the construction permit was sold to WFAB, Inc., in a sale of 60 percent of the station from Louis G. Jacobs to Harold King. Both parties sold the station for $40,000 to United Broadcasting of Eastern Virginia, Inc., the next year. While the new station's transmitter was under construction at 7500 SW 107th Avenue in South Miami, vandals stole of coaxial cable from the site. On the air WFAB signed on after years of delays on February 15, 1962, carrying programming for the African America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
