WEVD was named in honor of Socialist Party orator and publicist Eugene Victor Debs, borrowing his initials
Frequency
1050 kHz
History
First air date
August 18, 1927
Former call signs
WSOM (1926–1927)[1]
Former frequencies
1220 kHz (1927–1928)
1300 kHz (1928–1941)
1330 kHz (1941–1981, sold)
Call sign meaning
Eugene Victor Debs
WEVD was an American brokered programming radio station with some news-talk launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America. Making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor Debs in its call sign (it called itself the "Debs Memorial Station"), the station operated from Woodhaven in the New York City borough of Queens. The station was purchased with a $250,000 radio fund raised by the Socialist Party in its largest fundraising effort of the 1920s and was intended to spread progressive ideas to a mass audience. A number of national trade unions and other institutions aided the Socialists in obtaining the station.
Originally broadcasting at 1220 kHz AM, later on 1300 kHz, for many years on 1330 kHz and finally on 1050 kHz, operation of the station was acquired by the publishing association responsible for producing the Yiddish-language social democratic daily newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward in 1932. An FM station using the same call sign was added during the 1950s. After briefly leaving AM broadcasting in 1979, The Forward swapped its FM frequency for another AM frequency and continued broadcasting as a small ethnic station until divesting itself late in the 1980s.
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WEVD was an American brokered programming radio station with some news-talk launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America. Making use of the...
revenues. The Dover translator remained with WMDT, later under the call sign WEVD-LD, until later owner Marquee Broadcasting swapped it for three low-power...
in America, America and was host of a radio talk show, Views in Brief, on WEVD in New York. Katharine Balfour, daughter of Raphael and Gertrude Balber,...
York City signed on in July 1951 as WEVD-FM, simulcasting its sister station at 1330 AM. Within a few years, WEVD-FM moved to 97.9, and 107.5 went off...
the mid-1990s on stations WCAU-AM and WPEN-AM in Philadelphia, WOR-AM and WEVD-AM in New York and in national syndication on NBC Talknet. A city planner...
Northeast, eventually working at stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN, WMCA and WEVD in New York, WNHC in New Haven, Connecticut, and WEZE and WZLX in Boston...
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morning talk show host on WEVD, where he expanded to a comprehensive liberal talk format from 1992 to 2001. The show ended when WEVD was optioned to ABC's...
gained the national radio rights to MLB.[citation needed] Disney purchased WEVD from the Forward Association in September 2002 to become WEPN, ESPN Radio's...
the right, by the mid-2000s he had moved back to the political left, on WEVD, and finally on WOR. His last scheduled broadcast was in Boston, Massachusetts...
York. It is owned by Radio Visión Cristiana Management. For years 1330 was WEVD, named after the Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs. However, the story...
and Patricia Lane, announced its intent to acquire WMDT and its repeater, WEVD-LP for $9 million. The company's next acquisition came in 2015 when it closed...
Love and Death. He was known as the Grammeister (Master of the Rhyme) on WEVD, a Yiddish radio station in New York City. Every Sunday, from the 1930s until...
of 1050 ESPN Radio in New York. He directed the rebranding of New York's WEVD-AM 1050 from a talk radio station to an all sports format. He became the...
and Silent Prey (1997). For many years, he hosted a radio talk show on WEVD in New York. In addition, Adams also hosted the short-lived 1953 game show...
same time in 2004, the Forward Association also sold off its interest in WEVD to The Walt Disney Company's sports division, ESPN. The name of the publication...
Danny Stiles (December 2, 1923 – March 11, 2011) was a radio personality at WEVD, WNYC, WNSW, WJDM and WPAT in the New York City market. He worked on the...
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