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THE MORE CONNECTED
we are to our family tree and com
munity, the more stable, receptive,
·Wide· pread upport halt t tion
ale, ays Black radio Ex: cutiv
By DANNY R. COOK
Recently, Kalamazoo' ety hall
the ite of an afternoon ne '
conference announcing the termina
tion of any contractual buylsell ar
rangemen for Portage radio station
WUBU PM 96.5 held at 3:00 p.m.
, Thursday, September 19th, the pre
briefmg by larry Langford, WUBU
owner, w obviously in response to
a promise Langford mad in a letter to
the Kalamazoo Metropolitan Branch
NAACP in August. ,
At that time he acknowledged the
community' support and said be
would report bac to this community
when a decision was made about thc
fate of the urban 'adult contemporary
ltation. '
Sayhig the contractual obligation .
to $ell tbe station to Tri-State Broad- ,
. eating w terminated on Septem-
. ber 4th, Langford announced the
station "has not, and will not be
sold."
Using what's known as a "drop
dead" clause (if the sale doe not go
. : through within 180 days and the
• FCC [Federal Communications
'" Commission] hasn't ruled on the
pending sale, parties to the contract
can terminate it), Langford did what
the FCC refused to do: see that
Kala� area Blacks get their fair
Larry Langford
sbare of the radio airwavea.
IN A DECISION dated Septem
ber 9, 1991 the FCC ruled the local
NAACP' objections to the ale of
wusu to Tri-State to' be without
meri t. In the same decl ion the FCC
decided the petition form the Nation
al Black Medi Coalition to block
the sale because it would allow Tri
State to own two PM radio tations
AbeThomp u
in the same mar et to be without
merit Iso. .
In ence, the FCC subverted i
duty to protect the righ of citizens
by allowing business people to
the airwave a private property,
some members of the NAACP id.
However, according to Robert Jones,
Chairperson of the Metropoli tan
Kalamazoo Branch' Committee on
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A tra ling exhibition "FIELD to
FACTORY: fric n-Amerlcan
Migration, 1915-1940," from the
Smithsoni n Institution, focusing on
the 20th century migration of
African-America from the South
to the North, will be on di play
through Nov. 17 at the Public
M eum of 0 nd Rapids.
"FIELD to FACTORY: African
American Migration, 1915-1940, i
ponsored by the Public Museum
and the Orand Rapid Alumnae
Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
re ponso .
"AELD�FACTO Y"focuse
on th migration of African-
. America from the rural grarian
South to the urban industrial North in
earch of better liv . .
According to Ellen Bro n, Ex
ecutive Chairpe on of the "AELD
to FACTORY" exhibition commit
tee and a member of Delta Sigma
The Sorority, "The traveling ver-
ions of the original exhibit have ex
perienced overwhelming ucce ,
Communications, the FCC i en
titled to its opinion, on which he
d not share.
"Due to influence form local
, media who do not wi h to compete
with WNWN/WUBU, Langford
ref to honor his contract with
Tri-State, Gary B. Mallemee, Presi
dent of Tri-State Broadcasting Com
p ny, id immediately prior to
Langford' appearance. "Neverthe
I ,Langford ha n't returned the
$50,000 advance paym nt,' Maller-
nee told the Michigan Citizen.
, Both Tri-State and B & B Broad- .
tlng Inc. are uing Langford -for
pecific performance of aid con
tract, according to Mallemee.
Langford id hi action w •
b inc deci ion and contractually
he has until Marc� 1992 to repay
Mallemee.
B & B BROADCASTING
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Pr
N.A.A.C.P.
DOll tion: 20.
Youth: 10.00
(Robert Goodrich aDd Bob Uget'
two f the 1 t radio group owners
in the saate, acxx)rdi to )
w given an op on to pdrCllIIe
WUBU two years ago and r that
option to pure aU tile PM
mi sion equipment for Lanato ,
MaUcmce laid.
Langford iocUcated that
worth of equipment pWCIbalc�
by B B Broadcaltin and repay
ment would be made.
Langford dmitted that be r-
esthna d the popul rily of the sta-
tion. rty 10,000 t we
on petitions recelv d by FCC in
support of the radio lalion remain
ing in I p nt format, LaOlfont
id.
"AI- part of our 'good r'
poUey we will lat South RidF
Reformed Church and tile Po
homeowno w� IDly haw in -
ference ith their appI aDd
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