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In July 2017, Made in Birmingham's news operation moved from Walsall to new studios and offices on Bridge Street, beside the Gas Street Basin in Birmingham. In November 2017, following a restructuring of the Made network's operations, [1] Birmingham News was axed and local production was cut. Around ten staff were reportedly made redundant.
In the 1950s, as network radio programming began to lose its importance due to television's popularity, WAPI 1070 evolved. It became a full service, middle-of-the-road station of popular music, news and sports, featuring several local call-in shows at night. By the mid-1970s, it was the only Birmingham AM adult contemporary radio station.
The station signed on in 1947; it was originally owned by the parent company of The Birmingham News, and it was the sister station of one of the more popular AM radio stations in Birmingham. In 1953, the parent company of The News purchased WAFM-TV, WAPI and WAFM-FM and was forced to sell WSGN-AM and FM to Jemison Broadcasting Company and then ...
Port Chicago disaster, a deadly munitions explosion that occurred in 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California; Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, Nebraska, 27 September 1944 munitions explosions causing nine deaths and extensive damage. USS Mount Hood, 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
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The Birmingham News reported that people were in line waiting to get into Hush when gunfire erupted. It interviewed Hush owner Ryan Pryor, who it reported opened the venue in 2019 after he retired ...
WZRR (99.5 FM, "Talk 99.5") is a radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama.It carries a news/talk format, simulcast with sister station WAPI 1070 AM. [2] WZRR is one of several Birmingham-area radio stations owned by Cumulus Media, with studios and offices on Goodwin Crest Drive in Homewood.