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 ...

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 ...

There’s a little more talk on WLIB (1190 AM) these days, and general manager Deon Levingston says that was the plan all along. “I wanted to be sure that we first branded our gospel format,” says ...

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 COO Pat Walsh informed his staff that WLIB-AM is transitioning to a daily gospel, inspiration, and information programming lineup that includes syndicated programming from AURN and Reach Media.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...