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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
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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
AACP
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