• WEVD was the call sign held by three New York City commercial radio stations, with related ownership, from 1927 until 2003. This call sign was formed from...
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    with the brokered programming format and call letters of The Forward-owned WEVD (previously on 97.9 FM) being moved to 1050 AM in February 1989. In 2001...
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    Empire State Building. On July 1, 1951, WEVD-FM began broadcasting on 107.5 MHz, simulcasting the programs of WEVD (1330 AM), owned by The Jewish Daily Forward...
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    WMDT (redirect from WEVD-LP)
    revenues. The Dover translator remained with WMDT, later under the call sign WEVD-LD, until later owner Marquee Broadcasting swapped it for three low-power...
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  • York City signed on in July 1951 as WEVD-FM, simulcasting its sister station at 1330 AM. Within a few years, WEVD-FM moved to 97.9, and 107.5 went off...
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    reporter on WABC-TV. When ESPN Radio began leasing (and later purchasing) WEVD radio in 2001, Kay was chosen to host a daily radio show on the newly rechristened...
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    Socialist Party of Oregon Socialist Party of Washington Socialist Party USA WEVD-AM radio Young Democratic Socialists Young People's Socialist League (1907)...
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  • jockey named Symphony Sid at WEVD. Symphony Sid's show had a huge diverse audience. The record had hit the airwaves at WEVD and requests by listeners poured...
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  • the mid-1990s on stations WCAU-AM and WPEN-AM in Philadelphia, WOR-AM and WEVD-AM in New York and in national syndication on NBC Talknet. A city planner...
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    commemorate Buffalo's labor movement history. Former New York radio station WEVD (now ESPN radio), then owned by the socialist Yiddish newspaper the Jewish...
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  • in America, America and was host of a radio talk show, Views in Brief, on WEVD in New York. Katharine Balfour, daughter of Raphael and Gertrude Balber,...
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  • WSOM as a means of reaching a mass audience with socialist ideas. It became WEVD, making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor...
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  • morning talk show host on WEVD, where he expanded to a comprehensive liberal talk format from 1992 to 2001. The show ended when WEVD was optioned to ABC's...
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  • Love and Death. He was known as the Grammeister (Master of the Rhyme) on WEVD, a Yiddish radio station in New York City. Every Sunday, from the 1930s until...
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    Council on African Affairs. In 1932, Hammond acquired a nonpaying job on the WEVD radio station as a disc jockey. He did not discriminate when choosing which...
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  • the right, by the mid-2000s he had moved back to the political left, on WEVD, and finally on WOR. His last scheduled broadcast was in Boston, Massachusetts...
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    Northeast, eventually working at stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN, WMCA and WEVD in New York, WNHC in New Haven, Connecticut, and WEZE and WZLX in Boston...
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    gained the national radio rights to MLB.[citation needed] Disney purchased WEVD from the Forward Association in September 2002 to become WEPN, ESPN Radio's...
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  • and Patricia Lane, announced its intent to acquire WMDT and its repeater, WEVD-LP for $9 million. The company's next acquisition came in 2015 when it closed...
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  • traded to Forward Communications, which owned WEVD, then at 97.9 FM. After that deal was approved, WEVD's call letters and programming moved to 1050 AM...
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  • Danny Stiles (December 2, 1923 – March 11, 2011) was a radio personality at WEVD, WNYC, WNSW, WJDM and WPAT in the New York City market. He worked on the...
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  • cities, lasted 42 days. "My Zaidy" was Megama's biggest hit. Art Raymond of WEVD radio station in New York, claimed that it was the most requested song he...
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    Vera Rozanko, A. L. Baron and Israel Rosenberg performing a skit on WEVD radio circa 1933...
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  • WFAB, and in 1938 was sold and its hours transferred to WEVD. WHAZ continued to share time with WEVD and WBBR, and in March 1941, implementation of the North...
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  • Reggie Williams Head coach Mouse Davis Home field Giants Stadium Local radio WEVD Results Record 6–4 Division place 2nd North American East Playoff finish...
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  • in Atlantic City, and was the host of the radio show The Broadway Hour on WEVD-AM New York. She has written two articles for The New York Times regarding...
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  • Howie Rose, Sal Messina, and Steve Somers. Some games were broadcast on WEVD-AM due to conflicts with New York Knicks National Basketball Association...
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    and Silent Prey (1997). For many years, he hosted a radio talk show on WEVD in New York. In addition, Adams also hosted the short-lived 1953 game show...
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    1957, Sid had left Boston and returned to New York, this time working on WEVD AM & FM. The station in the 1920s and '30s had been known for ethnic music...
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    same time in 2004, the Forward Association also sold off its interest in WEVD to The Walt Disney Company's sports division, ESPN. The name of the publication...
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