The First Black Woman to Own a Radio Station, Dorothy Brunson, Dies « Your Black Bloggers

The First Black Woman to Own a Radio Station, Dorothy Brunson, Dies « Your Black Bloggers

By JasmineHughes

Dorothy E. Brunson, who became the first African-American woman in the nation to own a TV and radio station when she bought WEBB-AM in Baltimore and later WGTW-TV Channel 48 in Philadelphia in 1986, died Sunday of complications from ovarian cancer at Mercy Medical Center.

The Northwest Baltimore resident was 72.