WCHB ‘SOUL RADIO’ 1400! APRIL 24, 1964 [The Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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WJLB IN NEW PROGRAM POLICY . . . SEPTEMBER 23, 1967

New Detroit R&B Soul Station PD Will Launch “Young Sound” and Apply Consistency To Programming

DETROIT — WJLB, Booth Broadcasting’s 1,000-watt R&B operation here, has just launched a new programming policy centering around tighter production, faster pacing, and a new set of custom jingles created and packaged by Quincy Jones.

Wash Allen, who just recently took over WJLB program director duties after being transferred from Booth’s WABQ in Cleveland, said the Detroit station would be “running with a full-blast, exciting young sound.” Playlist will be 40 records, to which he will add as necessity demands. “You can never tell how many good tunes will come out in a good week, but I think the average will be about five new records a week,” he said.

The aim will be to establish consistency in programming, Allen said. He felt his philosophy in programming was the same as Bill Drake, consultant to RKO General stations, and Paul Drew, program director of CKLW in Detroit. “Certain top tunes must be played consistently and deejays must be consistent in their shows. One dee-jay can’t make a station; it has to be a total operation and this is a new concept in R&B radio. In the old days, one guy could make a station; he could make a record. It can’t be like that today.”

Things are changing so fast in radio, especially in R&B radio, that Allen felt many older dee-jays were finding it difficult to grasp what was happening. “To some extent,” Allen said, “it was necessary to teach radio to these people. It wasn’t anybody’s fault that this situation developed. It’s just that times are changing and a radio station has to move with the times.”

Allen began his radio career with WVOL in Nashville while attending Tennessee State University. He had been with WABQ about two and a half years before moving to WJLB. He considers himself a “derivative of Ed Wright,” who’d been program director of WABQ prior to joining Liberty Records as head of its Minit label.

Allen wrote lyrics and produced the Jones jingles. Future plans call for psychedelic jingles. Station has brought in new equipment and is building up its news department. In Martha Jean Steinberg and Ernie Durham, Allen felt he had two of the top air personalities of any station in the nation. “Now, with the new equipment, we find we have everything to work with. END

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Information, credit, and news source (as was published): Billboard; September 23, 1967

A WQBH 1440 RADIO PERSONALITY ROSTER CARD: 2002

WQBH RADIO 1440 PERSONALITIES

“The Queen’s Spirit Blesses Us with Divine Love Bringing Us Together and Through in 2002”

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Jay Butler * Raymon * Diane Steinberg-Lewis * Fred Goree * Rufus Beal * Grant Martin * V. Lonnie Peek * Art Blackwell * Gerald Smith * Ken Coleman

— A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —

A special THANK YOU to Diane Steinberg-Lewis for recently sharing this WQBH roster from 2002.

Diane also shared this brief note as well:

“I was a broadcaster on WQBH from 2000 til 2002, while there, the station played tapes of Mom’s ‘Inspiration Time’ and it segued into ‘Reflections of The Queen’ which helped me mightily through my grief when she made her transition.”

Martha Jean ‘The Queen’ passed away on Saturday, January 29, 2000.

MARTHA JEAN STEINBERG: A POSTHUMOUS INDUCTION, N.B.R.H.O.F

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CONGRATULATIONS

National Black Radio Hall of Fame Posthumous Award

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(Feb. 27, 2021 at 6 pm EST on Zoom)

The National Board has approved Martha Jean ‘The Queen’ Steinberg and the following industry members into our prestigious National Museum for our 2020 and 2021 Induction Awards.

Guy Brody, Yvonne Daniel, Big George, Burke Johnson, Irene Johnson Ware

In honoring Martha Jean Steinberg, Diane Steinberg (in behalf of her family) will speak and will be accepting the NBRHOF posthumous award presentation.

Saturday, February 27, 2021

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The National Black Radio Hall of Fame

These outstanding inductees join the ranks of those who were inducted in the 2019 National Black Radio Hall of Fame held in Atlanta.

The National Black Radio Hall of Fame located in St. Louis, Mo. is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable non-profit organization established in 2010 to recognize and acknowledge the countless contributions of personalities and pioneers to African American Radio Nationally. Our facility is located in the beautifully remodeled “Big Picture School” and consists of: a museum that showcases memorabilia, exhibits, and displays honoring personalities who developed and shaped Black Radio nationally. (See below)

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For more on the National Black Radio Hall of Fame visit their website HERE.

For the Detroit Chapter of the National Black Radio Hall of Fame, go HERE.

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(The National Black Radio Hall of Fame program courtesy of Diane Steinberg)

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A TOUCH OF THE QUEEN: ‘QBH 1400 INSPIRATION TIME

INSPIRATION TIME * Thursday, January 15, 1987 * WQBH

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Martha Jean Steinberg.

The veteran Detroit radio ‘soul’ legend was known having devoted her air time speaking well of her fervent beliefs in God, spirituality, and of her faith. To instruct, uplift, and encourage (as well as admonish) with a devotion to inspire her Detroit audience daily (“Inspiration Time”) when she on the air at WJLB and on WQBH.

If this WQBH radio segment you may find all-too inspiring, this was what she did best — as no other — reaching out and delivering words of encouragement daily to her Detroit following on the radio dial.

The Queen, she loved nothing more than sharing a voice of reason, advice, and a call for love. Void of the radio “entertainment” segues on her shows, reaching out to a city she loved became her platform — having touched many souls — for nearly four decades Martha Jean was heard on the radio in the Motor City.

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Martha Jean “The Queen” passed away on January 29, 2000.

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— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —

A special THANK YOU to Diane Lewis Steinberg (Martha Jean’s daughter) — for sharing this WQBH radio memory featuring Martha Jean — recorded 33 years ago — with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

DETROIT SOUL RADIO NEWSPRINT ADS: WCHB! 4/24/64

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

— Friday, April 24, 1964 —

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A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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WJLB RADIO PRESS PHOTO: MARTHA JEAN ‘THE QUEEN’

**WJLB MARTHA JEAN ‘THE QUEEN’ STEINBERG** (*Press Photo*) **1975**

ON THIS DAY 20 YEARS AGO: THE QUEEN REMEMBERED

— A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN —

Martha Jean Steinberg

— January 29, 2000 —

Twenty Years Ago A Voice Was Stilled

Martha Jean. Beloved in memory by many. Simply remembered as,“The Queen“.

She is remembered having been the voice of the city she truly loved. Whose daily broadcasts inspired “generations of radio listeners” in Detroit for over four decades.

The Queen Remembered

‘QBH 1400 INSPIRATION TIME: A TOUCH OF THE QUEEN

INSPIRATION TIME * “Touching Words” * WQBH

A TOUCH of THE QUEEN

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‘Touching Words’

The Detroit radio ‘soul’ legend was known having devoted her air time speaking well of her fervent beliefs in spirituality, and her faith. To instruct, uplift, and encourage (as well as admonish) with a devotion to inspire her Detroit audience daily (“Inspiration Time”) while on the air at WJLB and on WQBH.

If this WQBH radio segment you may find all-too inspiring, this was what she did best — as no other — delivering words for encouragement.

The Queen Remembered