14 10 413 https://thebbrm.org/files/original/5035501ba3a60147b83c85fa80d884e5.jpg 53ebc0b6b1c3ea5408a2792099b77924 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence, WBMG-TV to George Johnson III Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 16: "We’re moving now to folder 16. Folder 16 contains a letter from Channel 42 to George Johnston III paying him some money in accordance with… the letter is from Hugh Smith, executive vice president of Channel 42, WBMG. Construction of the early Channel 42 tower may have been on Johnston land. WJLD's tower is now up on Garrison Avenue. The letter concludes the transactions between WBMG and Johnston Broadcasting. Apparently there was a dispute over tower construction on Red Mountain and whether or not there was some kind of… perhaps there was some kind of… some kind of interference with regard to signals, to their signals. From the WJLD files." 1970s Correspondence George Johnson III Johnson Broadcasting Company WBMG-TV WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/3e2b2c6a1c9d5ae54912e6593e31af01.jpg 39bc37ca3fad527dec611446fd2f987c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tommy Jackson and Willie McKinstry Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 15: "Ok this is an insert, folder 15, which is a picture of Willie McKinstrey with a friend, Tommie Jackson, at the 1st Avenue studios of WJLD in 1972, in Willie McKinstrey’s studio. We had this at the First Ave location.Tommy reflections of McKinstry are in our oral history collection. I believe this may have come directly from Tommie Jackson and that would confirm the location." 1970s Tommy Jackson Willie McKinstry WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/d152db8298c7930c5fcd44c213e7d9ca.jpg c7360b8f43b094f8b95a87640dc449b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Willie McKinstry at WJLD Studio, Ishkooda Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 14: "Ok, here we have… we’ll do this later. So here we have folder 14, which is a picture of Willie McKinstry at the board, doing his show. You can see that there’s a tape deck there, there’s a couple of cart machines, push button phone… not push button, dial phone. Picture could have been taken at the WJLD studio at First Avenue and 19th Street studio downtown or later at the building on Spaulding Ishkooda Road, when the full building was used for studios. We had a studio, I believe, on the side of the building that’s no longer being used for that. Small room. Willie McKinstry. That picture was probably received from Ed McClure." 1970s Willie McKinstry WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/3dfd4d319aa51aa32c9d8790951266d7.jpg 4e9a75f5ee2ad474962d3a1db321448f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WJLD Promotion, "First Black Baby of 1972" Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 13: "This is folder 13 on WJLD’s stationary, still at 109 North 19th Street. The first black baby of 1972. Currently there’s a promotion that they did every year. They had a baby promotion every year so now it’s the first black baby of the year promotion. Each merchant participating receives five announcements each day. This is not a continuity sheet; this is a promotional idea that the various sales people would take out. In the same folder is “Negro activities are centered around and motivated by their church affiliation.” This is another proposal to the church community on how to participate in a promotion that they would carry out on the air and I will let any researcher read it for themselves. 1972. Nine local hospitals involved. From the WJLD files" 1970s Promotion Stationary WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/9444c94617a0be6649671eef60c34038.jpg adff87e47756f34f24b114dc72846ace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jimmy Lawson Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 12: "Anyway, this is folder 12. Folder 12 is picture of Jimmy Lawson around 1971. He was still at WJLD far as I remember. From McNair Studios" 1970s Chris McNair Studios Jimmy Lawson WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/8059e61e0095ae8676ac063d1dc5397b.jpg 5e8f1ff4abdb50fdd719862a51924e51 https://thebbrm.org/files/original/8c45756caf2b6f6b82bddb7593e1b9d5.jpg 784c0c77ff50612049e0209c62633c86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource FCC Request for Location Change, WJLD Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 11: "Ok, folder 11 is part of an FCC request changing the location of the station from Homewood to Fairfield, at the Garrison, and the antennae is now moved from… the transmitter location is now at Garrison Avenue which is where it currently is. Ok, let’s pause for a sec…. We’re continuing with this. The station, WJLD was located at this time, the studios, at 109 North 19th Street. They are now moving the tower, which was originally on Red Mountain at this time as well, to Garrison Avenue. So the transmitter location is changing, and therefore… and the antennae is therefore being moved, but at this very moment it is not clear that the studio is being moved at all. The studio is still at 109 North 19th Street. That’s what this does, and accompanying this is a broadcast map showing the difference in 25 millivolt contours by virtue of the move, so the strength now moves to the west which would have been an appropriate thing to do since there were more African Americans in that area I think. Ok, it might be. City of license will change from Homewood to Fairfield. From the WJLD files." 1970s Fairfield FCC Homewood Red Mountain WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/114c9a8ff0f42d103fed901135891fc8.jpg a31fc27e2b2d947aaadbdafd0c9ff08b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clipping, "WENN Sold to Atlanta Based Firm" Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 10: "Ok we’re in folder 10, looking at a copy of an article probably from the Birmingham News dated…. No, the Birmingham Post Herald, dated May 6, 1971, indicating that Hertz Broadcasting of Birmingham has purchased radio station ENN and FM from Joe Mack Birmingham Corporation for more than $800,000. More than $800,000. This is the license transfer that… well, it’s interesting to me. It says “The license transfer, which was approved Tuesday by the FCC, closed out all of Joe Mack’s broadcasting property in the nation as stipulated by the will of John M. McClendon, late president of the company, according to WENN’s general manager, Joe Lackey.” And we’ve talked about John McClendon in the past. It also points out that he owned five radio stations in the southeast, six radio stations in Costa Rica, a television station in Jackson, MS. His wish was that all of his stuff be sold right after his death. This is from 1971 and this company, Hertz, based in Atlanta, Georgia, purchased the station for $804,000. The company owns two radio stations in Georgia, an advertising firm in Atlanta. Lackey said they’ll be no format or personnel changes at the station because of the transfer. The thing that’s interesting is that they talk about it as the station rather than the stations, which would lead you to believe at this time they were simulcasting on AM and FM and fundamentally on AM. Although, yeah this is before… this is pre-A.G. Gaston because A.G. Gaston’s name is used as the initials AGG which is where WENN AM would have transferred its name to. So what we’re looking at here is the McClendon family giving up its ownership to an Atlanta based company of 1320 and it’s not clear to me that they have purchased 107.7 as a frequency although they indicate that there is an AM and an FM frequency associated with a McClendon ownership so I would presume that the only thing that could mean is that they own 107.7, but were not broadcasting as a stand alone FM station. There’s more research needed here. From the Bham Library archives." 1970s Birmingham Post Herald Hertz Broadcasting Joe Lackey McLendon Broadcasting Company WENN https://thebbrm.org/files/original/ffb496b8a825f76110f52d2488ce5927.jpg 2ce2a520c6039a3827a02034d867644a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WJLD Report, American Research Bureau Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 9: "This is folder 9, which are ratings sheets. These are probably not ratings sheets, these are probably reports for the American Research Bureau, which was the precursor to the Arbitron rating system, in which WJLD and WJLN would spell out their frequency and the amount of hours they were on the air and so on and so forth, and these were copies that were sent away and…. The traffic manager, whose name appears to be Beverly Brazier, traffic manager for WJLD, WJLN. I don’t know the name at all. Her name does not appear on the staff flow chart in folder 7. From the WJLD files." 1970s American Research Bureau (ARB) Beverly Brazier WJLD WJLN https://thebbrm.org/files/original/41d17701738525d0bd02721622a7459e.jpg c9ce72896aee04a83aacd367a38f9f39 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rick Upshaw, WGOW Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 8: "Here we go to folder 8, picture of Rick Upshaw from when he was at WGOW in Chattanooga, and we got his mailing address. He was at WJLD for one year in 1967, this from 1971, and we had some contact with him in the ‘90s. He helped us by supplying us with some tapes of WJLD, some reel to reel tapes of programming which we have since transferred to cassette, and I don’t know if we have transferred those to digital yet. Donated by Upshaw." 1960s 1970s Rick Upshaw WGOW WJLD https://thebbrm.org/files/original/3fd2f317dff621e9fd8172213028e96c.jpg 74ea5c999b9dea90aceca91a65852e33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Organizational Chart, WJLD Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 7: "Ok, we now move to folder 7 which is a, kind of a flow chart showing the order of responsibilities starting from George Johnston and working his way down to various directors. Anyway this is kind of a tree of responsibility from the… what do they call those things for crying out loud, a flow chart of one kind or another, that shows the order of authority in WJLD or Johnston Broadcasting, starting from George Johnston III working the way down to officer manager, assistant manager, and sales manager, then the program director, the music director, the news director, the maid, Nina Milton, and the chief engineer, Jimmy Jones. Not sure of when this was published. Earlier files show Jimmy losing flexibility. Also, I don't know the relationship at this time between Bob Shivers, Music Director, and Father Tree, who played psychedelic music. From the WJLD files." 1970s Ann Farley Bob Shivers George Johnson III Jimmy Jones Jimmy Lawson Larry Hayes Maurice Wald Nina Milton Willie McKinstry WJLD