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The goal was to tie together the 117 radio stations in the country to serve the African-American audience. The National Black Network became the first coast-to-coast radio network fully owned by African Americans on July 2, 1973, in New York City.
WERD in Atlanta was the first radio station owned and operated by African Americans. (WDIA in Memphis was on the air in 1948 doing black—or Negro as it was then called—programming, but the owners were not African American). Jesse B. Blayton Sr., an accountant, bank president, and Atlanta University professor, purchased WERD in 1949 for $50,000.
WERD was the first Black-owned radio station, founded in 1949 by J.B. Blayton. It was 21 years ago when Ricci deForest would stumble upon a special place that changed his life forever.
The National Negro Network was a black-oriented radio programming service in the United States founded on January 20, 1954 by Chicago advertiser W. Leonard Evans, Jr. [1] [2] It was the first black-owned radio network in the country, and its programming was broadcast on up to 45 affiliates. [3]
As Pennsylvania’s only independent Black-owned talk radio station, WURD Radio has cultivated that trust with our audience over our 20-year history. This is something we take very seriously.
Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is an American media conglomerate based in Silver Spring, Maryland. 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, currently operating over 50 radio stations.
The Federal Communications Commission has informed the only Black-owned radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee it could lose its license. Knox The post FCC moves to revoke license of Black-owned ...
The original frequency was 730 kHz. The station did not do well until Ferguson learned about "targeted programming" and realized there was one audience in Memphis no other radio station served. Half of the listeners who could hear WDIA's signal were African-American, and WDIA hired the first black disk jockey in the South. [5]