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The New Dance Show is a television series in Detroit, Michigan, which ran on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS affiliate known as WWJ-TV) and W68CH 68 (now WHPS-CD 15). Hosted by R.J. Watkins, The New Dance Show was a local version of Soul Train and featured regular dancers, including a man who dressed like a Gypsy and who wore a cape, and a woman who dressed as a boxer.
WHPR-FM was admonished by the FCC in 2001 for running advertising contrary to its status as a "Noncommercial Educational Station." [1] In 2011, the station was fined $22,000 for numerous violations, including relocating its transmitter without FCC authorization, failure to keep a public file and not having any EAS equipment in use (the station's EAS decoder was stored in a closet).
The Complex is a 5,350 seat, 105,600 square feet (9,810 m 2), multi-purpose arena in Valdosta, Georgia, USA. Construction began in 1979 and was completed in 1982. It is the home of the Valdosta State University Blazers basketball and volleyball teams. The Complex also contains a four lane jogging track and offices for the athletic department ...
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WHPS-CD was the Detroit area's first Black-owned TV station since WGPR (channel 62, now WWJ-TV) became a CBS affiliate. The station was owned until 2015 by R. J. Watkins, who, between 1988 and 1996, hosted and produced a dance program for WGPR-TV, The New Dance Show, which moved to WHPS-CD in 1995 [2], and reruns still air on the station at various evening timeslots.
Joseph Ray Watkins was the second son and third child of Reverend Benjamin Utter Watkins and Sophronia (Keeler) Watkins. He was born in Cincinnati on August 21, 1840. Joseph and his older brother were educated at the local public schools. Watkins' father sold their homestead in 1862 and moved the family to Minnesota.
Oct. 25—Percy "Happy" Watkins, who co-founded Spokane's annual march commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and longtime voice in the drive for civil rights in Spokane, died Friday. He ...
Named for Dr. Jere M. Pound, the second president of the University, Pound Hall was originally the main building for Emory Junior College, a private all male school that operated from 1928 to 1953. The property was purchased by Valdosta State when the school closed. [5] It was remodeled in 1974 to house the School of Business Administration.