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In 1969, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to impose restrictions on the common ownership of print and broadcast media in the same market.The combination of the Detroit News and WWJ-AM-FM-TV was given grandfathered protection from the new regulations, but by the mid-to-late 1970s, the Evening News Association was under pressure to break up its Detroit cluster voluntarily.
Elliot attended Wayne State University, [3] and served in World War II as a B-24 bomber pilot. [4] During the war he spent 18 months as a prisoner of war. [5] He became a weatherman in 1947. He was known for his jokes during broadcasts. [6] Eliot started broadcasting Detroit weather on WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV on channel 4) from the 1947 to 1980. [7]
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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. ... Robin Givhan [235] Reagan Gomez-Preston [236] Chuck Goudie [237]
Robin Cohen (born 1944) is a social scientist working in the fields of globalisation, migration and diaspora studies. He is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford .
The first CD from the Weather Channel heralded the network's entry into retail music. The network's music had been a source of interest for viewers, who had written in for years asking where they could purchase the music played during the "Local on the 8s" segment, broadcast 288 minutes each day. The 12-song compilation features the channel's ...
29 October Robotopia, advances of robotics in Japan, and bizarre contraptions; Frederik L. Schodt, author of the 1988 book Inside the Robot Kingdom - for hundreds of years until 1853, Japan was a fairly backward country; Joseph Engelberger, who developed the first industrial robot, Unimate, made by his company Unimation from 1961 - there were ...
WMBC was an early outlet for religious programming and gospel music in Detroit. It was also the home of conservative radio commentator Jerry Buckley , who was shot dead in the lobby of the LaSalle Hotel in 1930 after successfully campaigning for a mayoral recall election in which then-mayor Charles Bowles lost.