Dorothy Edwards Brunson (March 13, 1939 – July 31, 2011) was a notable African-American broadcaster.
[1] After leaving Inner City Broadcasting, Brunson was the first African-American female to own a radio station, WEBB (1360 AM) in Baltimore, Maryland, purchased from entertainer James Brown in 1979.
[1] Brunson would sell off her radio stations eleven years later in 1990 to provide funding to establish WGTW-TV (Channel 48), licensed to Burlington, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, to the east across the Delaware River, becoming the first African-American woman to establish a television station.
Brunson died from ovarian cancer at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore on July 31, 2011, at age 72.
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