WEVD

The call letters WEVD are associated with the following: WWRV AM 1330 in New York City , which held the WEVD call sign until 1981 WSKQ-FM 97.9 in New York City, which held the WEVD-FM call sign from 1952 to 1989 WEPN AM 1050 in New York City, which held the WEVD call sign from 1989 to 2003 WEVD-LP channel 27 in Dover, Delaware , the current holder of the WEVD call sign, as repeater of WMDT Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about radio and/or television stations with the same/similar call signs or branding. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Station WEVD was named in honor of Socialist Party orator and publicist Eugene Victor Debs, borrowing his initials. WEVD (originally broadcasting at 1220 AM , later on 1300, for many years on 1330 and finally on 1050), was an American news-talk radio station launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America . Making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor Debs in its call sign , the station operated from Woodhaven in the New York City borough of Queens . The station was purchased with a $250,000 radio fund raised by the Socialist Party in its largest fundraising effort of the 1920s and was intended as spreading progressive ideas to a mass audience. A number of national trade unions and other institutions aided the Socialists in obtaining the station. Operation of the station was taken over by the publishing association responsible for producing the Yiddish -language social democratic daily newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward in 1932. An FM station using the same call letters was added during the 1950s. After briefly leaving AM broadcasting in 1979, The Forward swapped its FM frequency for another AM frequency and continued broadcasting as a small ethnic station until divesting itself late in the 1980s.

Former radio station in New York City Station WEVD was named in honor of Socialist Party orator and publicist Eugene Victor Debs, borrowing his initials. WEVD was an American brokered programming radio station with some news-talk launched in August 1927 by the Socialist Party of America . Making use of the initials of recently deceased party leader Eugene Victor Debs in its call sign , the station operated from Woodhaven in the New York City borough of Queens . The station was purchased with a $250,000 radio fund raised by the Socialist Party in its largest fundraising effort of the 1920s and was intended as spreading progressive ideas to a mass audience. A number of national trade unions and other institutions aided the Socialists in obtaining the station. Originally broadcasting at 1220 kHz AM , later on 1300 kHz, for many years on 1330 kHz and finally on 1050 kHz, operation of the station was taken over by the publishing association responsible for producing the Yiddish -language social democratic daily newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward in 1932. An FM station using the same call sign was added during the 1950s. After briefly leaving AM broadcasting in 1979, The Forward swapped its FM frequency for another AM frequency and continued broadcasting as a small ethnic station until divesting itself late in the 1980s.

Three New York City radio stations that held the WEVD call sign from 1927 until 2003) Station logo in 1942 WEVD was the call sign held by three New York City commercial radio stations, with related ownership, from 1927 until 2003. This call sign was formed from the initials of recently deceased Socialist Party of America leader Eugene Victor Debs .