Radio station WHAM-AM in Rochester, New York, celebrates its 100th Birthday in 2022. Host, Joe Lomonaco, marks this milestone with a weekly series that includes rare and never before heard archive recordings, new interviews with former, and current, WHAM staff, and stories about what WHAM means to the community it continues to serve. New episodes drop every Wednesday with bonus episodes, from time to time, on Sundays.
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Radio station WHAM-AM in Rochester, New York, celebrates its 100th Birthday in 2022. Host, Joe Lomonaco, marks this milestone with a weekly series that includes rare and never before heard archive recordings, new interviews with former, and current, WHAM staff, and stories about what WHAM means to the community it continues to serve. New episodes drop every Wednesday with bonus episodes, from time to time, on Sundays.
For over 60 years, he self-published a newspaper serving the black community of Rochester. He was also Rochester's first black broadcaster - a career that lasted nearly 40 years. And his weekly feature - 5 Minutes With Howard Coles - aired on WHAM in the 60s and 70s. Former TV meteorologist Richard McCollough and Howard's daughter, Joan Coles Howard, tell us about the journalist and broadcaster who broke color barriers and documented the history of the black community in Rochester.
Howard W. Coles collection, The Voice of Howard Coles Audio Recordings. Courtesy of the RMSC, Rochester, NY
WHAM @ 100: An Oral History
Radio station WHAM-AM in Rochester, New York, celebrates its 100th Birthday in 2022. Host, Joe Lomonaco, marks this milestone with a weekly series that includes rare and never before heard archive recordings, new interviews with former, and current, WHAM staff, and stories about what WHAM means to the community it continues to serve. New episodes drop every Wednesday with bonus episodes, from time to time, on Sundays.
