WLIB (1190 AM) is switching from the liberals to the Lord. After 29 months as the flagship station for the progressive talk network Air America, WLIB will become a full-time black gospel music station ...

Gospel station WLIB 1190 AM, hosted its 9 th annual radiothon in support of St. Jude Children’s Hospital, raising more than $121,000. During the two-day radio-thon, WLIB and on-air hosts Bishop ...

WLIB (1190 AM) is playing music without hosts as it prepares for the March 31 debut of the new progressive talk network “Air America. The most popular Caribbean station in town the last few years, ...

On Monday, June 27th, WBLS 107.5 FM, your #1 source for R&B, and 1190 WLIB AM, your praise and inspiration station, will celebrate Black Music Month with an exclusive listener event, in partnership ...

Emmis Communications has reached a deal with YMF Media to purchase heritage Urban AC WBLS-FM and its sister station, Urban Gospel WLIB-AM, for $131 million in cash. Emmis, which already owns Urban ...

Emmis Corporation has not sold WEPN-FM or WLIB-AM in New York. And, that may not transpire for a while. Emmis, with the help of a veteran programming consultant, has moved both stations to the ...

Emmis Communications, the radio and publishing company which owns WQHT (Hot 97) in New York, has announced a deal with YMF Media to purchase two New York radio stations -- WBLS 107.5 FM (the No. 2… By ...

If Smulyan’s deal is approved, to reduce debt, he says he’ll “explore alternatives for Emmis’s publishing division (other than Indianapolis Monthly magazine), WLIB-AM in New York and its radio ...

What better metaphor for the prolific Madlib — whose 2008 résumé includes R&B auteur Erykah Badu, hard-guy MC Guilty Simpson, and Brazilian drummer Ivan Conti — than WLIB AM, the community-minded, ...

The final installment of BBE's Beat Generation series-- inaugurated by the late J Dilla-- finds Madlib using his traditional mix of diverse beat styles and judiciously placed comic interludes to pace ...