EBS Exceptional Service Award
date: label: presentation date
content: 1987
name: label: recipient
content: Blum, Morris H.
label: manufacturer
content: Award Crafters, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This award was presented to Morris Blum, owner of radio station WANN (1190 AM), by The Federal Emergency Broadcast System, in 1987. It is a brown-stained wood plaque with a brass plate. The plate is printed:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>EBS<br>Exceptional Service<br>Award<br>Presented to<br>MR. MORRIS BLUM<br>MARCH 30, 1987<br>for exceptional voluntary<br> service on behalf of the<br> Nation's Emergency Broadcast System<br>Edward J. Minkel<br>Managing Director<br>Federal Communication Commission</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: Virginia, Fairfax
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Popular Entertainment
label: See more items in
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: 2002.0319.04
label: accession number
content: 2002.0319
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0319.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 in x 1 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm x 2.54 cm