MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WDIA, the first radio station in the country to be programmed for black listeners, is promoting 95.7 Hallelujah FM‘s Tracy Bethea to be its new program director, a role that had been ...

iHeartMedia has appointed Tracy Bethea as program director of WDIA (1070 AM), its urban oldies and classic soul station in Memphis. Bethea will be responsible for the station’s music content, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WDIA, America’s first all-Black radio station, has been a cornerstone of the Memphis community and is still going strong after more than 75 years on the air. The station has been a ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One of Memphis’ pioneers in the radio industry has hit a major life milestone. Ford Nelson, known as one of the pioneering voices of Memphis Gospel radio, turns 100 years old. “It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bobby O’Jay, radio personality on Memphis’ WDIA—the country’s first Black radio station—has died at the age of 68. His cause of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the iconic voices of Memphis broadcasting, Bobby O'Jay, has died. The Tennessee Radio Hall of Famer was 68. iHeartRadio, ...

In the early 1900s, long before playlists were curated by algorithms, Memphis was already shaping the American soundtrack. Many of us are familiar with Memphis staples like STAX Records and Sun Studio ...

Tracy Bethea hosts A Conversation with WDIA. The first US radio station to reach out to a Black audience – with 50,000 watts of Goodwill – was right here in Memphis, Tennessee. 75 years later, it’s ...

Christine Cooper Spindel, a radio executive who helped transform Memphis station WDIA into a beacon of Black programming in late 1940s and early 1950s, has died. As the female program director of the ...

Two Memphis destinations have been added to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, a collection of more than 100 landmarks significant to social justice movements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The landmarks — ...