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WWIN-FM
WWIN-FM (95.9 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station in Baltimore owned by Urban One. It is known as "Magic 95.9", playing a variety of urban adult contemporary music from the 1960s to present. Its transmitter is located along I-695 in Hawkins Point near Curtis Bay (officially Glen Burnie, Maryland), and its studios are located in Gwynn Oak (they were previously located at Cathy Hughes Plaza in downtown Baltimore). History WWIN-FM's former nickname from the 1970s was ''Z-96'', with the call letters WBKZ. Around 1987, the format changed to Contemporary Hit Radio with the call letters WHTE, then WGHT. '"Hot 95.9"' failed to compete with CHR leader WBSB, and all airstaff were fired on June 23, 1989. Urban Adult music returned to 95.9 FM as legendary announcers Harold Pompey and Don "Cleo" Brooks created 1400 AM/95.9 FM WWIN-FM "The Best Songs and No Rap". In 1992, after a failed purchase attempt Washington, D.C. station owner Cathy Hughes and her company Almic Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWIN-AM
WWIN (1400 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. Owned by Urban One, it broadcasts an urban gospel radio format. Some Christian talk and teaching programs are heard middays and Sundays. The studios are in Woodlawn, shared with sister stations WERQ-FM, WOLB and WWIN-FM. WWIN is powered at 500 watts. The transmitter is on East Monument Street in the Orangeville section of East Baltimore. History WWIN first signed on in 1951. For most of its history, it has been programmed for Baltimore's African-American community. Originally it played R&B and soul music, with some urban gospel Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern subgenre of gospel music. Although the style developed gradually, early forms are generally dated to the 1970s, and the genre was well established by the end of the 1980s. The radio format is pitched prima ... in early mornings and on Sunday. In later years, as most listeners switched to FM for contemporary music, WWIN switched to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWIN (AM)
WWIN (1400 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. Owned by Urban One, it broadcasts an urban gospel radio format. Some Christian talk and teaching programs are heard middays and Sundays. The studios are in Woodlawn, shared with sister stations WERQ-FM, WOLB and WWIN-FM. WWIN is powered at 500 watts. The transmitter is on East Monument Street in the Orangeville section of East Baltimore. History WWIN first signed on in 1951. For most of its history, it has been programmed for Baltimore's African-American community. Originally it played R&B and soul music, with some urban gospel Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern subgenre of gospel music. Although the style developed gradually, early forms are generally dated to the 1970s, and the genre was well established by the end of the 1980s. The radio format is pitched prima ... in early mornings and on Sunday. In later years, as most listeners switched to FM for contemporary music, WWIN switched t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio One (Company)
Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based American media conglomerate. Founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, the company primarily operates media properties targeting African Americans. It is the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company in the United States, operating 55 radio stations and majority-owning the syndicator Reach Media, as well as its digital arm Interactive One, and the cable network TV One (U.S. TV network), TV One.Felicia R. Lee"A Network for Blacks With Sense of Mission" ''The New York Times'', December 11, 2007. As of 2014, it was the ninth-highest-earning African-American businesses, African-American-owned business in the United States. History Urban One was founded as Radio One in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, a then-recently divorced single mother, with the purchase of the Washington, D.C. radio station WOL-AM for $995,000.Steven Overly"With purchase of radio station WOL in 1980, Cathy Hughes launched a media empire" ''The Washingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban One
Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based American media conglomerate. Founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, the company primarily operates media properties targeting African Americans. It is the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company in the United States, operating 55 radio stations and majority-owning the syndicator Reach Media, as well as its digital arm Interactive One, and the cable network TV One.Felicia R. Lee"A Network for Blacks With Sense of Mission" ''The New York Times'', December 11, 2007. As of 2014, it was the ninth-highest-earning African-American-owned business in the United States. History Urban One was founded as Radio One in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, a then-recently divorced single mother, with the purchase of the Washington, D.C. radio station WOL-AM for $995,000.Steven Overly"With purchase of radio station WOL in 1980, Cathy Hughes launched a media empire" ''The Washington Post'', August 11, 2014.Clea Simon"Mining an Untapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WERQ-FM
WERQ-FM (92.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. It features a Mainstream Urban radio format and is owned by Radio One of Lanham, Maryland, the largest broadcasting company serving African American audiences in the United States. The studios are located in 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 HD-2 digital subchannel carries urban gospel programming from co-owned WWIN, while their HD-3 subchannel simulcasts the black 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), initially using a call sign that owner United Broadcasting had previously used at a station it had just sold in Virginia. On October 2, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOLB
WOLB (1010 AM) is an urban talk radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. The station is owned by Urban One and broadcasts from studios in 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., the station was in 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 month that WSID was acquitted, Tinley filed to sell WSID for $65,000 to the United Broadcasting Company, which owned radio station WOOK (1600 AM) in Silver Spring; the sale was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Joyner
Thomas Joyner (born November 23, 1949) is an American retired radio host, former host of the nationally syndicated '' The Tom Joyner Morning Show'', and also founder of Reach Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb.com. Early life Joyner was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Frances and Hercules L. Joyner. Tom came from an educated family: his grandfather Oscar was one of only 3,000 black physicians in the United States, earning a degree in medicine in 1909. Both of his parents were graduates of historically black colleges, and both Tom and his brother Albert attended Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University. Tom Joyner graduated with a degree in sociology. While a student at Tuskegee, Joyner joined the fraternity Omega Psi Phi. At first, his goal was to be a musician, and he joined a band, the Commodores, that included his college friend Lionel Richie, but the band did not make any money and his family encouraged him to seek another way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Hughes
Catherine Liggins Hughes (born Catherine Elizabeth Woods; April 22, 1947) is an American entrepreneur, radio and television personality and business executive. She has been listed as the second-richest Black woman in the United States. She founded the media company Radio One (now known as Urban One), and when the company went public in 1999, she became the first African-American woman to head a publicly traded corporation. In the 1970s, Hughes created the urban radio format called "The Quiet Storm" on Howard University's radio station WHUR with disc jockey and fellow Howard student Melvin Lindsey. Early life Cathy Hughes was born to Helen Jones Woods, a trombonist with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm at Piney Woods School, a private boarding school in Mississippi, and William Alfred Woods, who was the first African-American to earn an accounting degree from Creighton University. Her grandfather Laurence C. Jones was a successful Mississippi educator and lynching survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique
Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name Monica. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the United States since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for Canada although mostly used by French speakers in Quebec and is rare in the English parts of Canada. Notable people named Monique Acting * Monique Chaumette (born 1927), French actress * Monique Coleman (born 1980), American actress, singer, and dancer * Monique Gabriela Curnen (born 1970), American actress * Monique Gabrielle (born 1963), American actress * Mo'Nique Hicks (born 1967), American actress and comedian * Monique Leyrac (1928-2019), Canadian singer and actress * Monique Mélinand (1916–2012), French actress * Monique Mercure (born 1930), Canadian actress * Monique Mojica, Canadian playwright, director, and actor * Monique Noel (born 1967), American glamour model and actress * Monique van de Ven (born 1952), Dutch actress and film director * Monique H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Glen Burnie is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Baltimore. The population of Glen Burnie was 67,639 at the 2010 census. History In 1812, Elias Glenn, a district attorney, established a county seat near what is currently known as Brooklyn Park. He named his property "Glennsburne". The name was changed to "Glennsbourne Farm", and eventually "Glenburnie", as the property was passed through Glenn's descendants. Records also show the name as "Tracey's Station" and "Myrtle", after local postmaster Samuel Sewell Tracey and one of Tracey's boarders, before the final decision was made. In 1854, William Wilkins Glenn, Elias Glenn's grandson, incorporated the Curtis Creek Mining, Furnace and Manufacturing Company into his family's property. The business flourished during the 19th century, and with it came several thousand acres of land in northern Anne Arundel County. Upon the death of William Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJZ (AM)
WJZ (1300 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. It is owned by Audacy, Inc., and broadcasts a sports betting radio format, carrying the BetQL network during the day and evening, with CBS Sports Radio heard nights and weekends. The studios are on Clarkview Road in Baltimore, off Jones Falls Expressway (Interstate 83). WJZ is powered at 5,000 watts, using a directional antenna with a five-tower array. The transmitter site is on Clays Lane in Windsor Mill. Programming is simulcast on FM translator W285EJ at 104.9 MHz in White Marsh, Maryland. It is also heard on 106.5 WWMX's HD-2 digital subchannel. History WEAR (1922–1924) Federal Communications Commission records list the station's "First License Date" as November 3, 1924, reflecting the date an initial license was issued for the station as WFBR. However, the station has traditionally traced its history to a predecessor station, the ''Baltimore American'' newspaper's WEAR, which was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drake-Chenault
Drake-Chenault Enterprises (originally American Independent Radio Inc.) was a radio syndication company that specialized in automation on FM radio stations. The company was founded in the late-1960s by radio programmer and deejay Bill Drake (1937–2008), and his business partner, Lester Eugene Chenault (1919–2010). Drake-Chenault was the predecessor of Jones Radio Networks with its syndicated satellite-delivered formats. History In the 1940s and 1950s, FM radio stations began to appear all over the US, generally alongside a sister AM station. Most stations held their FM license by simulcasting the programming of the AM sister station. In the 1960s the FCC introduced a rule that prohibited owners of AM and FM stations from simulcasting in an attempt to increase variety of programming and generate FM listenership. The FM audience share at that time was very small. Since the AM and FM stations aired the same programming, there was little reason to listen to FM. The rule targeted m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
