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Detroit News | 1 week ago

With video: Building on legacy of Martha Jean 'The Queen'

...in Memphis, Tenn., before becoming a fixture in Detroit. She joined WCHB-AM in 1963 and later worked for WJLB-FM and the former WQBH-AM. She later bought that station, making her the...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Donnie Simpson

...for his luminous light green eyes. Simpson began his career at age 15 at Urban Contemporary radio station WJLB in Detroit, Michigan, where he remained for eight years. In 1977 he...

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Wikipedia | 1 month ago

WMGC-FM

...year, and then Secret Communications sold its Detroit holdings (including WQRS and urban contemporary stations WJLB-FM and WMXD) to Evergreen Media Corporation (which later was absorbed...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

WHTD

...until October 2002, when the station once again shifted format to Rhythmic Oldies and hired away longtime WJLB personality and Detroit Pistons announcer John Mason to do the morning show.

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Cadillac Tower

...floors, including two below ground. At the top of the tower is a tall guyed mast for local radio station WJLB. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

MC Serch

...supposed to be 1/16th African-American. From 2003 he hosted Serch In The AM on Detroit Urban Radio Station FM 98 WJLB; he was the first Jewish DJ at that station. MC Serch was dismissed...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

WAAM

...as "Jerry Riley") Jim Michaels (WDRQ, WWKR , WNIC, WTWR , WABX , WJOI, WYST ) and The Electrifyin' Mojo (WGPR, WJLB, WHYT , WMXD). The '80s and '90s: More Changes In 1976, WAAM was...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

WCHB

By the late 1960s, however, the popularity of the Motown sound, in addition to competition from WJLB (then an AM station at 1400 on the dial, now WDTK) and FM upstart WGPR, led...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Bill Randle

He was born William McKinley Randle Jr. in Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit, he hosted a popular show on WJLB-AM radio (now WDTK) called The Interracial Goodwill Hour, featuring rhythm and...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

WJLB

...community for nearly four decades. Now, the stereo FM station became "FM 98 WJLB, Detroit's Strongest Songs". WJLB-AM 1400 continued to program to the African American community in...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

WMXD

...shortly afterward to become Secret Communications. WMXD and longtime Detroit urban contemporary powerhouse WJLB were now - and still are - sister stations. Just a few months later,...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

WDMK

...and took the WCHB-FM calls and the slogan "105.9 The Beat," in an attempt to go after longtime urban leader WJLB. Radio One acquired WCHB-AM/FM in July 1998, and the following month,...