WWJ (AM)
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WWJ is a commercial AM radio station licensed to serve Detroit, Michigan, featuring an all-news radio format known as WWJ Newsradio 950. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station services Metro Detroit, and
Radio pioneer Thomas E. Clark provided technical advice during the planning stages (1922 advertisement)
August 1920 publicity photograph. L-R: Howard J. Trumbo, manager of the local Thomas A. Edison Record Shop, operating a phonograph player; Elton M. Plant, Detroit News employee and announcer, behind 8MK's DeForest OT-10 radio transmitter; and engineer Frank Edwards.
1922 Detroit News Orchestra broadcast. The large round unit atop the stand on the far right foreground is the pick-up microphone.
Station building built in 1936, photo taken around 1942
WWJ-TV
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WWJ-TV, branded as CBS Detroit, is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Stations division, and is s
WWJ (AM)
…WGPR-TV (channel 62) in the wake of an NFL-related affiliation switch where CBS lost WJBK-TV as its affiliate, and channel 62's calls were changed to WWJ-TV on September 20, 1995 to trade off the goodwill of WWJ radio. Along with "97.1 The Ticket," WWJ was the flagship station for Detroit Pistons basketball…
Amyre (Porter) Makupson, Doug Morison and Sharon Crews presented WGPR-TV's nightly Big City News in 1976.
Sharon (Crews) Dahlonega Raiford Bush in 2012
1976 WGPR-TV print advertisement showing the station's "butterfly" logo.
Shaun Robinson began her media career at WGPR-TV as a news reporter, anchor and talk show host.