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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*New York, NY — Imhotep Gary Byrd’s longtime WLIB talk show “GBE Mind Flight,” a weekly Sunday mix of news, talk and music heard from 9:00pm to 12:00 midnight and featuring leading Black journalists ...

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, ...