Kilduffs Media Page ......................................................................A look at Baltimore Media, A to Z
  After World War II, Baltimore had only 5 AM Stations operating, WBAL, WCAO, WFBR, WCBM, and WITH. Later other stations joined in, such as WAYE, WTOW, and WEBB. This listing as confusing at points, as stations change names and formats often.
WAAM - TV     ( WJZ - TV )
   
Now known as WJZ - TV 13 ( See below )....
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   Station opened in November 1948, Baltimore's third television station to open. This was the first station to open on "TV hill ".
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Updated 4-21-2010

..WAAM Baltimore TV station

WAAM TV Baltimore  
WAAM TV Baltimore. ( later known as WJZ-TV ). Early pictures show the studios on TV Hill and a 1950's show being shown with Gilman School students in the late 1950's.
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.................................WJZ TV Baltimore 1963

WBAL hasn't always been located on Television Hill, overlooking the JFX. For years, the WBAL Studios were located at 2610 North Charles Street.  The station opened in March 1948, and the moved to TV Hill, the the early 1960's.The old building is still standing , and used as a storage building for a moving company.
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Below are pictures of WBAL at Charles Street and studio shows from both Charles Street and TV Hill.
.............................WBAL 1927 Lexington Building
...........................WBAL - Lexington Building - 1927



.................WBAL Baltimore 1927
....................WBAL  booth - 1927

..................WBAL
.........................WBAL - Receprion Area - 1927

..............WBAL 1927
..........................WBAL - Large Studio - 1927
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.................................Above, Boradcast studio for WBAL, 1947.    Below, the broadcast tower for the station in the 1920's.
...........................................................................WBAL Broadcast Towers 1920s'
...........................................................WBAL 1974
.....................................................................WBAL TV Camera at University of Baltimore in 1974.
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......NBC WBAL Broadcast 1950s


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.............................................................1960's circa drawing of WBAL on Baltimore's TV Hill.

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WBAL Radio



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............................WCAO
WCAO - AM 600 - back in the mid 1970's - " Top Forty "
8001 Park Heights Avenue

WCAO Radio basketball team, playing Dulaney High School, 1970's.


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..................WCBM ..........................WCBM
WCBM AM - 680
68 Radio Plaza , Owings Mills Plaza
circa 1976 - Pop music
1980's " news talk "


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........................WEBB
WEBB Radio  1360 AM
Clifton and Denison

"Soul"

........................................WFBR
WFBR - 1300 AM
13 East 29th Street , Baltimore

In the 1970's , known as a Pop and Talk station

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...............................................................................WFBR - on the air 1940
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WITH Radio AM 1230
7 East Lexington Street
1970's - "Pop"







.........WITH RAdio







WLPL Radio - 92 FM
6623 Reisterstown Road
in the 1970's - " Top Forty "

..................................WLPL Radio Baltimore
.........................WLPL Radio at Milford Mill High School Dance , circa 1970's


WMAR TV BAltimore
........................................................................WMAR - Late 1940's
WMAR TV ( TV 2 )
TV Plaza - York Road
Started October 1947
Now  -" Just north of the Baltimore City Line "


WMAR was actually the first of Baltimore's TV stations. It started in the Sunpapers Building on Charles Street @ Baltimore Street, with the tower high atop the Maryland National Building a block away. WMAR was not as much as a " studio station" back then , as it was a mobile station, having the two big trucks seen on the left driving around the City and recording news and events. Recorded were horse racing ( Pimlico ) , events at the Coliseum on Monroe Street ( Boxing , etc ) , baseball at Memorial Stadium, and events at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. WMAR moved to the new studios in May 1963.
..................WMAR 1963

........................WMCP
WMCP Radio
...................................................Candle Opera Tower Baltimore
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Updated 4/21/2010