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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. The sound of a vinyl record on a Victrola is a symphony of crackles and pops, a delicate dance between needle and ...
In 1987, Hughes bought radio station WMMJ with her company Radio One (now Urban One). [14] In 1995, Radio One bought radio station WKYS. [15] Radio One went on to own 70 radio stations in nine major markets in the U.S. In 1999, Radio One became a publicly traded company, listed under the NASDAQ stock exchange. As of 2007, Hughes's son, Alfred ...
Black Information Network (BIN) is a radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting African American communities, carrying mostly important national news headline stories as well as current events and special interest features. Some stations also incorporate ...
In the 1950s and 60s, WANN Radio in Annapolis became a beacon for Black listeners by playing music and broadcasting voices that other mainstream stations ignored.
Radio One was founded 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. [8] [9] [10] She changed the station's programming format from all-music to one that examined politics and culture from an African American perspective. [8]
WRSV, owned by Northstar Broadcasting, is an African-American family owned Broadcast station. It was started by the late William Avera Wynne, passed to his son William "Billy" Wynne, Jr. and later sold to the station's General Manager Charles O. Johnson, as a result of the great relationship between Wynne and Johnson.
WMGE (1670 kHz) is a AM radio station broadcasting an African American-oriented all-news radio format from the Black Information Network. Licensed to Dry Branch, Georgia, United States, the station serves the Macon area during the day and the southeast United States at night. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. [2]