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Want to know the latest weather conditions and forecasts for Detroit and the surrounding areas? Check out the CBS Detroit weather page, powered by the experts at WWJ-TV CBS News. You can also find ...
Jun 24, 2010 · WWJ 950 AM, "Newsradio 950" is Detroit, Michigan's only 24-hour all-news radio station. Broadcasting at 950 kHz, the station is owned and operated by CBS Corporation subsidiary CBS Radio.
Nov 8, 2015 · Detroit News drama editor Al Weeks was the first newscaster for WWJ. Here he does a "Town Crier" show in 1921. The Detroit News Archives. This was the first commercial radio transmitter sold to ...
Sep 11, 2020 · Detroit News station WWJ began test broadcasts on Aug. 20, 1920 using call sign 8MK. A phonograph horn attached to the transmitter’s microphone is seen picking up recorded music on a borrowed Edison phonograph. From left are “disc spinner” Howard Trumbo, announcer Elton Plant and engineer Frank Edwards. Credit:
Aug 19, 2020 · WWJ engineers stretched a 290-foot wire 140 feet above the ground running half a city block from the News Building to the Fort Shelby Hotel. The newly boosted signal was picked up as far away as ...
WWJ 950 AM. WWJ, known as “Newsradio 950,” is an AM radio station broadcast throughout most of lower Michigan from a 50,000-watt transmitter in Newport, Monroe County, Michigan. Owned and operated by Entercom, WWJ is Detroit’s only 24-hour all-news radio station, and is the oldest radio station in Michigan.
