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WDIA

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WDIA is a radio station based in Memphis, Tennessee. [1]

50 relations: African Americans, B.B. King, Beale Street, Black-appeal stations, Bob Perkins (radio), Christian radio, Columnist, Country music, Dr. Hepcat, Elvis Presley, Encyclopedia Africana, Glossary of jive talk, HD Radio, Hertz, IHeartMedia, Jackson, Mississippi, Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr., KDIA, KJMS, KWAM, List of African-American firsts, List of radio stations in Tennessee, Lucky Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, Middle of the road (music), Mississippi Delta, Missouri Bootheel, Music, Nathanial Dowd Gaston Williams, National Civil Rights Museum, Patent medicine, Radio advertisement, Radio personality, Radio station, Rufus Thomas, San Francisco Bay Area, Soul music, Stroke, The Goodees, Urban adult contemporary, Watt, WEGR, WERD (historic radio station), WHAL-FM, WHBQ-TV, WHRK, World War II, WREC, Yvonne Daniels, 1947 in radio.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Beale Street

Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately.

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Black-appeal stations

Before the development of the radio format called "Top 40" was born, "Black Appeal Stations" reinvigorated radio.

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Bob Perkins (radio)

Bob Perkins is an American radio personality.

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Christian radio

Christian radio is a category of radio formats that focus on transmitting programming with a Christian message.

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Columnist

A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Dr. Hepcat

Albert Lavada Durst (January 12, 1913 – October 31, 1995), known as Dr.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Encyclopedia Africana

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas Books 1999, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005) is a compendium of Africana studies including African studies and the "Pan-African diaspora" inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois' project of an Encyclopedia Africana.

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Glossary of jive talk

Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip, was the distinctive slang that developed in Harlem, where jive or jazz was played, and was subsequently adopted more widely in US society, peaking in the 1940s.

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HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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IHeartMedia

iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

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Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.

Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. (May 13, 1920 – January 30, 2000) was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA and was a radio Disc Jockey and actor.

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KDIA

KDIA (1640 AM) is a radio station of Baybridge Communications in Vallejo, California.

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KJMS

KJMS (101.1 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station in Memphis Tennessee, and serving the Mid-South, area, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc..

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KWAM

KWAM (990 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee.

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List of African-American firsts

African Americans (also known as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group in the United States.

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List of radio stations in Tennessee

The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Tennessee, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.

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Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco groups.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Middle of the road (music)

Middle of the road (MOR) loosely describes any type of music that falls between popular music and art music, and includes the work of serious composers who write in a lighter style than normal.

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Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.

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Missouri Bootheel

The Missouri Bootheel is the southeasternmost part of the state of Missouri, extending south of 36°30' north latitude, so called because its shape in relation to the rest of the state resembles the heel of a boot.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Nathanial Dowd Gaston Williams

Nathanial Dowd Gaston Williams (Oct. 19, 1907 – October 27, 1983) was a high school teacher, a disc jockey on Black Appeal radio and a journalist and editor who was born on Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn.

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National Civil Rights Museum

The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present.

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Patent medicine

A patent medicine, also known as a nostrum (from the Latin nostrum remedium, or "our remedy") is a commercial product advertised (usually heavily) as a purported over-the-counter medicine, without regard to its effectiveness.

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Radio advertisement

In the United States, commercial radio stations make most of their revenue by selling airtime to be used for running radio advertisements.

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Radio personality

A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English), commonly referred to as a "disc jockey" or "DJ" for short, is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Rufus Thomas

Rufus C. Thomas, Jr. (March 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm-and-blues, funk, soul and blues singer, songwriter, dancer, DJ and comic entertainer from Memphis, Tennessee.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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The Goodees

The Goodees (Kay Evans, Sandra Jackson and Judy Williams) were an American pop music girl group who enjoyed brief popularity in the late 1960s.

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Urban adult contemporary

Urban adult contemporary (often abbreviated as urban AC) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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WEGR

WEGR is a classic rock FM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee.

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WERD (historic radio station)

WERD was the first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans.

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WHAL-FM

WHAL-FM is a radio station in Memphis, Tennessee broadcasting an urban gospel format.

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WHBQ-TV

WHBQ-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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WHRK

WHRK (97.1 MHz "K97.1") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WREC

WREC (600 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Talk radio format, and calling itself Newstalk 600 WREC.

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Yvonne Daniels

Yvonne Daniels (1937 – June 21, 1991) was an American radio host in Chicago from the 1960s to 1980s.

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1947 in radio

The year 1947 in radio involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDIA

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