Frankie Crocker built the legacy that WBLS will be celebrating with DJ Cassidy and Chuck Chillout in honor of the station's 50th anniversary. When legendary WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker broke McFadden & ...

When you’re blessed with the opportunity to reach over two million listeners on a daily basis, you’d be remiss not to use that platform responsibly to address pressing social issues. Veteran WBLS ...

During the most of the 1970s and early 1980s, when the late radio personality Frankie Crocker would conclude his late afternoon/early evening shift on New York City powerhouse FM outlet WBLS, he would ...

New York City radio station WBLS continued to celebrate its 50th anniversary with DJ Cassidy and DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic Live, an event featuring legendary R&B and hip-hop artists at Newark’s ...

Our March 2024 issue celebrates a golden anniversary: New York’s premier R&B station, WBLS, is turning 50! It takes a lot of work, dedication, and passion to keep a station going for half a century, ...

The reign of one of the nation’s best-known R&B radio stations, New York City’s WRKS, 98.7 KISS FM, is over. It will merge with longtime rival 107.5 WBLS, station management revealed. KISS FM owner ...

Mayor Eric Adams is launching a new radio show called "Hear from the Mayor." The show on WBLS 107.5 FM will air semi-regularly and feature news of the day, along with special guests and live call-ins ...

Wendy Williams, whose booming personality has made her a fixture – and occasionally the center of scandal – on city radio for 20 years, is leaving her long-time home at WBLS (107.5 FM) for a new love: ...

The battle over radio audience measurement that raged five years ago when Portable People Meters replaced paper diaries—a move that minority stations said hurt their ratings—never really went away.

New York City radio host Shalia Scott, who was terminated from her role at R&B station WBLS after nearly three decades on air, is firing back at her former employer with a lawsuit for discrimination ...

Brian Carter, a popular deejay on WBLS and Sirius XM satellite radio, died early Sunday morning of an apparent heart attack — less than 12 hours after his WBLS airshift. Carter was 56. He had worked ...

In 1983, Frankie Crocker (left) met with Michael Jackson at the Black Radio Exclusive Convention in Los Angeles. Jeffrey Mayer When legendary WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker broke McFadden & Whitehead’s ...