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It's S'more Fun Together With "More S'mores" Beer KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI / ACCESS Newswire / May 27, 2025 / Whitman's Chocolates and Boulevard Brewing Company are embarking on a delicious ...
Trailblazers like Duane "In the Mix" Bradley and the Electrifying Mojo on WJLB, along with WGPR-TV's The Scene (renamed The New Dance Show in 1988), ignored genre, nationality and race ...
WGPR-TV Historical Society, started by former employees of WGPR-TV 62, has been dedicated to preserving the television station's history. Now the building is being acknowledged as a historic ...
He then worked at WCXI-AM, WGPR-FM and WJLB-FM — all in Michigan — until joining WJBK in Detroit in 1984. There, he spent nearly three decades covering local news before retiring in 2012.
Historical Detroit station WGPR-TV 62 is celebrating its 38th anniversary this week. According to Michigan Advance, the monumental moment came just a few years after the Federal Communications ...
The walls inside of WGPR’s William V. Banks Broadcast Museum in Detroit are filled with visual artifacts from Black media’s yesteryear. A litany of plaques and framed portraits of singers ...
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Not to be missed is a selfie with The Fist, a monument to Detroit-raised boxer Joe Louis, and a visit to the often-overlooked WGPR-TV Historical Society Museum (wgprmuseum.org) that commemorates ...
DETROIT (WXYZ) — WGPR’s history dates back 50 years – that’s when William Banks and a colleague attended a White House dinner – pressing then-President ...
The roundtable took place at the historic WGPR-TV in Detroit. The WGPR William V. Banks Broadcast Museum is housed within the original studios of WGPR-TV along Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.
But it all started many years ago in Detroit at WGPR — the first Black owned and operated television station in the country. “I remember coming home. And then at 6:00, my grandmother would ...