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Publisher. Editor. Journalist. Employer (s) Anniston Star. Consolidated Publishing Co. Spouse. Josephine Ayers. Harry Brandt Ayers, also known as Brandy Ayers (8 April 1935 - 3 May 2020) was a publisher and journalist based in Anniston, Alabama, part of the Ayers family of publishers.
The station first signed on the air on October 26, 1969, as WHMA-TV. [6] Originally operating as a primary CBS and secondary NBC affiliate, the station was initially owned by the Anniston Broadcasting Company, which was run by members of the family of Harry M. Ayers, who also owned the Anniston Star newspaper and local radio station WHMA (1390 AM and 100.5 FM, the FM station is now Atlanta ...
The Anniston Star is the daily newspaper serving Anniston, Alabama, and the surrounding six-county region. Average Sunday circulation in September 2004 was 26,747. However, by 2020 it was approximately half of this. [1] The newspaper is locally owned by Consolidated Publishing Company, which is controlled by the Ayers family of Anniston.
The Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks, which occurred on May 14, 1961, in Anniston and Birmingham, both Alabama, were acts of mob violence targeted against civil rights activists protesting against racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party in ...
WFZX. / 33.68750°N 85.83028°W / 33.68750; -85.83028. WFZX (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an urban contemporary music format. [3] Licensed to Anniston, Alabama, United States, the station serves the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Area. The station is currently owned by Jeff Beck, through licensee The Jeff Beck Broadcasting ...
WDNG News was in operation as far back as 1959 under former station owner Tom Potts, Sr. It was the only Anniston radio station to offer same-day coverage of the May 14, 1961 Freedom Riders bus burning, which is considered one of the landmark events of the civil rights era. Two station employees were at the scene of the bus burning, taking notes.
WHMA-FM began broadcasting in 1947 and owned by Consolidated Publishing which printed The Anniston Star newspaper. Licensed to Anniston, Alabama WHMA was a class C 100,000 watt FM. The present WHMA-FM signed on the air January 2005 as a class A 6000 watt previously licensed to Ashland, Alabama as "Real Country" WASZ 95.5.
WHMA (AM) / 33.70861°N 85.85389°W / 33.70861; -85.85389. WHMA (1390 AM, "Mighty Power 1390") is a radio station licensed to serve Anniston, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Williams Communications, Inc. It broadcasts a Gospel music format and features news programming from Fox News Radio. [1]