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.A look at Baltimore
Media, A to Z
After World War II,
Baltimore had only 5 AM Stations operating, WBAL,
WCAO, WFBR, WCBM, and WITH. Later other stations
joined in, such as WAYE, WTOW, and WEBB. This listing is
confusing at points, as stations change names and
formats often.
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WAAM - TV
( WJZ - TV )
Now known
as WJZ - TV 13 ( See below )....
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Station
opened in November 1948, Baltimore's third
television station to open. This was the first
station to open up on "TV Hill ".
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WAAM TV Baltimore.
( later known as WJZ-TV ). Early pictures show the
studios on TV Hill and a 1950's show being shown
with Gilman School students in the late 1950's.
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WBAL hasn't
always been located on Television Hill, overlooking
the JFX. For years, the WBAL Studios were located at
2610 North Charles Street. The television station opened in
March 1948, and the moved to TV Hill, the the early
1960's.The old building is still standing , and used
as a storage building for a moving company. A check
of a City Directory for 1940 shows the stations
address as 652-65 Lexington Building.
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at Charles Street and studio shows from both Charles
Street and TV Hill.
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 ..WBAL Radio
- Lexington Building - 1927
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 .WBAL Radio booth -
1927
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 .WBAL - Receprion
Area - 1927
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 ....WBAL - Large
Studio - 1927
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 ..Above, Broadcast studio
for WBAL, 1947. Below, the broadcast
tower for the station in the 1920's.
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WBAL TV camera at University of
Baltimore in 1974.
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WBAL Television Studios 1948
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.1960's circa drawing of WBAL on
Baltimore's TV Hill.
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WCAO - AM 600 -
back in the mid 1970's - " Top Forty "
8001 Park
Heights Avenue
WCAO Radio basketball team, playing
Dulaney High School, 1970's.
IIn 1940 -
Address listed as 811 West Lanvale Street ( Upton
Mansion )
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WCBM Radio
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Baltimore Broadcasting Corporation - Executive
Offices
Hearst Building
- 1601 Hearst Tower Building.
Studios -
Harford and North Avenue
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WCBM AM - 680 68 Radio Plaza , Owings Mills Plaza circa 1976 - Pop music 1980's " news talk " .
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WEBB Radio
1360 AM
Clifton and
Denison
"Soul"
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WFBR - 1300 AM
13 East 20th Street , Baltimore In the 1940's, the address is shown as Baltimore Radio Show Inc. Business address - 5801 Radio Avenue ( could be Transmitter ) Studio - 10 East North Avenue ( Centre Theatre Building ) In the 1970's , known as a Pop and Talk station .
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 WFBR Studio
- on the air 1940
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WITH Radio AM 1230 7 East Lexington Street 1970's - "Pop" ......... |
| WLPL Radio - 92 FM
6623 Reisterstown Road in the 1970's - " Top Forty " 92.3 FM is today known as "92-Q" |
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 WLPL Radio at
Milford Mill High School Dance , circa 1970's
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WMAR TV ( TV 2 ) TV Plaza - York Road Started October 1947 Now -" Just north of the Baltimore City Line " WMAR was actually the first of Baltimore's TV stations. It started in the Sunpapers Building on Charles Street @ Baltimore Street, with the tower high atop the Maryland National Building a block away. WMAR was not as much as a " studio station" back then , as it was a mobile station, having the two big trucks seen on the left driving around the City and recording news and events. Recorded were horse racing ( Pimlico ) , events at the Coliseum on Monroe Street ( Boxing , etc ) , baseball at Memorial Stadium, and events at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. WMAR moved to the new studios in May 1963. |
 The current studio of WMAR TV on York Road at the City/County Line. |
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The student radio station of the
University of Maryland , College Park. I believe the
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WMCP Radio |
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Television Hill tv tower...
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Metro Traffic Control is heard all over
the Country doing traffic reports. It actually started
here in Baltimore City, and quickly grew over the
years. A service that now relies on video camera feeds
and air units, back in the 1980's, much of the traffic
reporting was done by mobile traffic reporters. In the
photo above, a Metro Traffic unit takes a break on
Dundalk Avenue in southeast Baltimore City. B |
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