FEATURES
By Eric Siegel | April 25, 1991
All three public radio stations in Baltimore showed substantial audience increases in the Arbitron figures for the winter of 1991.Classical music WBJC-FM (91.5) had 8,200 listeners in an average quarter hour, up from 5,000 in the fall of 1990; National Public Radio affiliate WJHU-FM (88.1) had 5,600, up from 3,800; and jazz and public affairs WEAA-FM (88.9) had 4,600, compared to 3,200.The three stations also showed increases in their weekly cumulative audiences -- the total number of area listeners who tuned into the stations at some point during the week.
NEWS
By Michelle Singletary and Michelle Singletary,Evening Sun Staff | October 19, 1990
Dorothy E. Brunson, a prominent local businesswoman, has sold all three of her radio stations, including WEBB-AM in Baltimore, for just under $4 million.When Brunson bought WEBB in 1979, she became the first black woman in the country to own a radio station.Now the president of Brunson Communications Inc., she says she will use the capital from the sales to get the company's Philadelphia television station, WGTW-TV, back on the air.Brunson sold WEBB and WIGO-AM radio in Atlanta for $3.6 million to Allied Media Inc. of Woodstock, Vt. WBMS-AM radio in Wilmington, N.C., was sold for $168,000 to a businessman in that market.
NEWS
By Robert Hilson Jr. and Robert Hilson Jr.,SUN STAFF | September 22, 1997
Benjamin Wolfe, a longtime broadcast engineer who helped establish two local radio stations and design the three-antenna tower at Television Hill, died of heart failure Wednesday at Sinai Hospital. He was 83 and lived in Mount Washington.Erected in 1959, the tower, which resembles a candelabra and sits near Druid Hill Park, was the first of its kind, according to Arthur Honsell of Baltimore, a retired broadcast engineer and colleague of Mr. Wolfe's."Taking something like that from concept to reality is truly amazing.
BUSINESS
By New York Times News Service | March 13, 1992
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to more than double the number of radio stations that a single company may own.The commission also allowed a single owner to have as many as three AM and three FM stations in a single city.The action, approved 4-0 with one abstention, comes as the industry is enduring its worst recession in decades. FCC Chairman Alfred C. Sikes has argued that allowing greater consolidation will allow broadcasters to cut costs.Andrew C. Barrett, the only black on the commission, abstained.
ENTERTAINMENT
By MIKE HIMOWITZ | January 4, 1999
If you're looking for good music on the Internet, you don't have to look far. And you don't have to break any copyright laws.While the recording industry has been engaged in a noisy battle with pirates who use a technology called MP3 to compress popular album tracks and post them online, the World Wide Web is host to two additional sources of music that are perfectly legal and easy to find.The first is Internet radio, which allows traditional broadcasters and Web-only stations to transmit directly to your computer - regardless of your location and theirs.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | October 29, 2002
Alfred E. Burk, retired general manager of WBAL radio and creator of the station's Kids Campaign, died yesterday of heart failure at his Timonium home. He was 83. For nearly 30 years, he was general manager of WBAL's AM and FM stations. He retired in 1984. Born in the Govans section of Baltimore and raised in living quarters next to his father's general merchandise store and post office at Long Green and Manor roads in Baltimore County, he was a 1936 graduate of Towson High School. He worked at the former Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River, making aircraft parts, before enlisting in the Navy in 1941.