The walls inside of WGPR’s William V. Banks Broadcast Museum in Detroit are filled with visual artifacts from Black media’s yesteryear. A litany of plaques and framed portraits of singers, DJs, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the host of "The Scene," which aired on WGPR-TV 62 from 1975 to 1987, Nat Morris, center, introduced Detroit to dancers that ...

WGPR-TV62 was the first black-owned TV station in the nation, started by the late attorney and minister William Banks in 1975, on East Jefferson in Detroit. It's impact is still felt today. Which is ...

(CBS DETROIT) - Sports journalist and TV personality Stephen A. Smith will be in Detroit this weekend for the WGPR Historical Society's fundraising gala. Smith is slated to be the special guest at the ...

One of the most popular sports television shows around brought its top star to the place that indirectly helped give him become a superstar. On Friday, ESPN commentator Stephen. A. Smith did a remote ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — WGPR’s history dates back 50 years – that’s when William Banks and a colleague attended a White House dinner – pressing then-President ...

WGPR-TV Historical Society, started by former employees of WGPR-TV 62, has been dedicated to preserving the television station's history. Now the building is being acknowledged as a historic location ...

The timing of a new Detroit Historical Museum exhibit devoted to WGPR-TV (Channel 62), the country’s first African-American-owned television station, could not be better. At a time when Hollywood is ...

On Sept. 29, 1975, the United States’ first Black-owned television station signed on for the first time. Historical Detroit station WGPR-TV 62 is celebrating its 38th anniversary this week. According ...

(WXYZ) — As we continue to celebrate Black History Month in metro Detroit, 7 Action News hosted a Black History Month digital roundtable on Monday night. The ...