WWJ (AM)

WWJ, 950 AM (a regional broadcast frequency), is an all-news radio station located in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The station is also licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for hybrid (HD) broadcasting. August 20, 2015 marks the beginning of its 96th year of broadcasting.

Owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation, WWJ's studios are in the Panasonic Building in Southfield, and its transmitter is located near Newport. WWJ is the only commercial all-news radio station in Michigan. Co-owned television station WWJ-TV (channel 62) is the only CBS owned-and-operated station without any local news presence (the television station carried news programming from 1997 to 2002 through present-day sister station WKBD-TV and a morning news program that ran from 2009 to 2012).

History

Early years

WWJ, which debuted as the "Detroit News Radiophone" on August 20, 1920, was the outgrowth of interest in radio technology by the publishers of The Detroit News, combined with inventor Lee DeForest's longtime promotion of radio broadcasting.

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