Turntable
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This custom built-in turntable is comprised of a Bogen-Presto platter, Gray Research & Development Co., Inc. tonearm, and Daven Company equalizer. This equipment was used by Annapolis, Maryland radio station WANN (1190 AM).</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>WANN (1190 AM) was a radio station based out of Annapolis, Maryland that primarily served the area's growing African American community. Morris Blum founded it in 1946, and it broadcast to the entire mid-Atlantic region. The station was home to disc jockey Charles "Hoppy" Adams starting in the early 1950s. Adams hosted weekly events at a local African American only beach, Carr's Beach, which were popular with the area's youth population. </p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>WANN continued to program gospel, rhythm and blues, and public affairs features until 1992 when the station changed to a mainstream country format with the catchphrase “Bay Country 1190.” Around 1998, the station changed ownership and became WBIS, broadcasting a News Talk Information format.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Morris H. Blum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0319.22
label: accession number
content: 2002.0319
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0319.22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turntable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 23 in x 14 in; 20.32 cm x 58.42 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: turntable: 7 7/8 in x 13 1/2 in x 12 in; 20.0025 cm x 34.29 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: tone arm: 4 1/2 in x 17 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 43.4975 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: equalizer: 7 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 11/16 in; 18.0975 cm x 8.89 cm x 9.36625 cm