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- WERD_(defunct) abstract "WERD was the first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans. The station was established in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 1949. WERD Atlanta was the first radio station owned and operated by African-Americans. (WDIA in Memphis was on the air in 1948 doing black—or Negro as it was called back then—programming, but the owners were not African American). Jesse B. Blayton Sr., an accountant, bank president, and Atlanta University professor, purchased WERD in 1949 for $50,000. He changed the station format to "black appeal" and hired his son Jesse Jr. as station manager."Jockey" Jack Gibson was hired and by 1951 he was the most popular DJ in Atlanta.The station was housed in the Masonic building on Auburn Avenue, then one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the United States. Located in that same building was the headquarters of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.According to Gibson, King would tap the ceiling of SCLC office [just below WERD] with a broomstick to signal he had an announcement to make. Gibson would then lower a microphone from the studio window to King at the window below.WERD was at 860 AM. While WDIA had Nat D. Williams, WERD had "Jockey Jack" Gibson, a friend of Blayton from Chicago. Blayton sold the station in 1968.".
- WERD_(defunct) wikiPageID "2123055".
- WERD_(defunct) wikiPageRevisionID "588549101".
- WERD_(defunct) hasPhotoCollection WERD_(defunct).
- WERD_(defunct) subject Category:1949_establishments_in_Georgia_(U.S._state).
- WERD_(defunct) subject Category:Defunct_radio_stations_in_the_United_States.
- WERD_(defunct) subject Category:Radio_stations_established_in_1949.
- WERD_(defunct) subject Category:Radio_stations_in_Atlanta,_Georgia.
- WERD_(defunct) type Artifact100021939.
- WERD_(defunct) type BroadcastingStation102903405.
- WERD_(defunct) type DefunctRadioStationsInTheUnitedStates.
- WERD_(defunct) type Facility103315023.
- WERD_(defunct) type Object100002684.
- WERD_(defunct) type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- WERD_(defunct) type RadioStation104044119.
- WERD_(defunct) type RadioStationsInAtlanta,Georgia.
- WERD_(defunct) type Station104306080.
- WERD_(defunct) type Whole100003553.
- WERD_(defunct) type YagoGeoEntity.
- WERD_(defunct) type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- WERD_(defunct) comment "WERD was the first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans. The station was established in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 1949. WERD Atlanta was the first radio station owned and operated by African-Americans. (WDIA in Memphis was on the air in 1948 doing black—or Negro as it was called back then—programming, but the owners were not African American). Jesse B. Blayton Sr., an accountant, bank president, and Atlanta University professor, purchased WERD in 1949 for $50,000.".
- WERD_(defunct) label "WERD (defunct)".
- WERD_(defunct) sameAs m.06nrbs.
- WERD_(defunct) sameAs Q7949019.
- WERD_(defunct) sameAs Q7949019.
- WERD_(defunct) sameAs WERD_(defunct).
- WERD_(defunct) wasDerivedFrom WERD_(defunct)?oldid=588549101.
- WERD_(defunct) isPrimaryTopicOf WERD_(defunct).