2011年1月15日 · WGPR-TV (Where God’s Presence Radiates) was the first television station in the United States owned and operated by African Americans. The station, located in Detroit, Michigan, was founded by William Venoid Banks.

WGPR (107.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Detroit, Michigan, broadcasting an urban contemporary radio format. Owned by the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons, its studios and offices are on East Jefferson Avenue on Detroit's lower eastside. WGPR has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts.

In 1975, a groundbreaking moment in American media history occurred when WGPR-TV62 in Detroit became the first Black-owned television station in the United States. The museum features the history of WGPR-TV62 with videos, oral histories, & artifacts that bring the station’s impact and influence on broadcasting to Life!

On Sept. 29, 1975, the United States’ first Black-owned television station signed on for the first time. Historical Detroit station WGPR-TV 62 is celebrating its 38th anniversary this week.

2021年2月17日 · WGPR-TV, the Detroit broadcast pioneer and first television station in the United States to be independently owned and operated by African Americans, is now officially a historic landmark.

2022年2月25日 · WGPR-TV was the first Black owned and operated television station in the country. The TV station is now gone, but a museum honoring its history sits in the former broadcast studios. It's where Daphne Hughes got her start in television.

2023年2月27日 · On September 29, 1975, WGPR went on the air as the nation’s first African American, owned --and operated-- television station. “We are now recognized as a national historic site, as well as a...

2021年5月3日 · WGPR-TV debuted a few seconds before noon on September 29, 1975, becoming the first African-American owned and operated television station in the continental United States. The station provided job training and employment opportunities for African-Americans in television production, broadcast journalism and sales.

It was the first TV Station in the United States to be independently owned and operated by African Americans. WGPR-TV62 first aired in Detroit, Michigan at noon on September 29, 1975, with recorded greetings from United Stated President Gerald R. Ford and Senator Robert P. Griffin.

The WGPR-TV Historical Society is a registered 501 (3)(c) non-profit established by former WGPR employees, many of whom launched their careers at the station. The origin of Society came from a realization that the story of WGPR needed to preserved and that a museum was the best cultural institution to collect, archive and present the station ...