WLIB

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WLIB
Radio station
reception analog medium wave 1190 kHz (30/10 kW)
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Reception area New York City United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Start of transmission 1946
Broadcaster Emmis Communication
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WLIB is a radio station in New York City . It was a political radio station in New York City from its inception until 2010 and an important voice for content in the civil rights movement from the 1960s onwards. From 2004 the station was an affiliate of Air America . The station is now owned by Emmis Communications , sister stations are WBLS and WQHT .

The three Emmis stations share the studios in the Hudson Square Section of Manhattan . The medium-wave transmitter of WLIB is in Lyndhurst (New Jersey) .

history

In December 1941, today's WLIB began broadcasting as WCNW from Brooklyn. Already licensed for today's transmission frequency, the WCNW initially shared the transmission hours with another station.

In 1947 the station was bought by the New Broadcasting Company . The head of the company, Morris S. Novik, had previously held a management position at New York's largest public radio broadcaster, WNYC . He and his brother took over WLIB and radically changed its format; they converted WLIB into a station with a program for the ethnic groups in New York. From then on, large parts of the daily program were aimed at the Jewish and Afro-American communities in the city. WLIB became the leading voice in New York's black population. She set up studios at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem to be close to her listeners.

Until the late 1980s, the program consisted primarily of political talk shows from Monday to Thursday, and Caribbean music was played from Friday to Sunday.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c E. R. Shipp: WLIB: Radio 'Heartbeat' of Black Life . In: The New York Times . 1988, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ WLIB: AIR AMERICA INCREASES OUR REACH . In: NY Daily News . ( nydailynews.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Hal Jackson, James Haskins (2003): The House that Jack Built: The Autobiography of a Successful American Dreamer, Businessman, and Entertainer. Amber Books Publishing.

Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 44.8 "  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 27.9"  W.