WCBC (1270 kHz) is an AM

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that serves the greater area of

Cumberland, Maryland Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland. It is the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,076. Located on the Potomac River, ...

. WCBC provides news coverage: locally, regionally, and nationally; weather forecasts; participation in major community events to promote the area and its organizations by way of remote broadcasts and community service announcements. WCBC's programming includes the long running Dave Norman Morning Program, and network affiliations with

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Network, and the Focus on the Family Radio Network. The station's sports programming includes coverage of local high school football and basketball,

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football, and area little league baseball. WCBC also has an FM sister station, WCBC-FM at 107.1 in

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, playing a

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format.

History

The station was founded in 1953 as WKYR, licensed to Keyser, West Virginia. In 1965, the station was granted full-time status and changed its city of license to Cumberland. In 1976, the call letters became WCBC.http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=51063

Lawsuit against Allegany County schools

On August 28, 2007, Cumberland Broadcasting Corporation, the owners and operators of WCBC-AM-FM, and "the Maryland Delaware DC Broadcasters Association filed a law suit in the United States District Court in Baltimore against each member of the Allegany County Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Allegany County Schools, Bill AuMiller", according to the WCBC (AM) website. The reason for the lawsuit is "that the Board of Education has acted to deny WCBC its First Amendment rights", again quoting the WCBC website. "Following criticism of the Board’s actions, WCBC was denied access to information provided to other media, denied access to press boxes at county schools, and denied information that would enable it to participate in a Board-endorsed scholarship program." On August 31, 2007, the Allegany County Board of Education offered an olive branch to WCBC and would again allow WCBC access to information, press boxes, etc. as it was prior to August 17, 2007, letter from the BOE which took those services away. According to a September 15, 2007, AP/

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report: So, despite the previous "WCBC/BOE Agreement" signed on August 31, 2007, WCBC's lawsuit against the Allegany County (of Maryland) Board of Education remains in the courts.

References

External links

1270 WCBC Online
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