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ABERDEEN HAPPENINGS: AM 970 WAMD Returns to Aberdeen Communications Scene
New owners Bill and Libby Parris, continue to assemble a team to fast forward WAMD into 2011 and beyond.
Have you heard?
WAMD is back on the air.
AM 970 WAMD returned to the airwaves the first of this month after being dark for more than a year.
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Purchased from Salem Communications for the princely sum of $1, long-time radio executive Bill Parris and his wife Libby have already transformed WAMD into a local news, information and music medium.
The station, located at 400 Hiob Lane, looks the same on the outside, but the inside has been transformed into a professional, modern, radio broadcast studio.
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Everyday Bill brings more gear into the small on-air studio. Bill recently installed video cameras in the studio allowing, not only audio, but now video streaming over the web at http://www.khztv.com.
This marriage of traditional radio broadcast and now Internet video, allows anyone with Internet access to hear and see the radio broadcast, live.
In addition to WAMD, Bill and Libby also own AM 810 WYRE Annapolis and AM 1460 WKHZ Easton. If this doesn’t keep them busy enough, Bill also manages a number of radio stations in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. market.
Station Manager, Steve Mann, handles the morning drive time on WAMD. Local news is provided by The Dagger.
New owners Bill and Libby Parris, continue to assemble a team to fast forward WAMD into 2011 and beyond.
Live remote broadcasts (the first of which happened at Havre de Grace's first, First Fridays), man on the street interviews and streaming audio and video direct from the on-air studio are all just the beginning of what Bill and Libby have planned for WAMD.
The radio signal has been greatly improved and now the station covers the Harford County Route 40 corridor and points north and west.
Local community interest show , is back on the air as well. airs live every Monday morning at 8:05, immediately following the news. I’ll be interviewing local and national people that have a connection to Harford County. In addition to Aberdeen Happenings, I also host Maryland Matters, a show that is more Maryland centric. It airs every Saturday morning at 9 AM.
WAMD is poised to deliver news, entertainment and programming in a modern, easily assessable format to the citizens of Harford County and beyond.
Tune in to the new WAMD at AM 970. You may just like what you hear.
Please feel free to email me at Aberdeenhappenings@comcast.net
