Cumberland, Maryland has several media outlets, most carrying some form of satellite programming. WCBC-AM and the Cumberland Times-News actively collect their local news content, while WFRB-FM has some local news content, but do not actively collect it.
Aside from some local news programming, virtually no mass media content originates from Cumberland. The local media tends to rebroadcast Hagerstown, Baltimore and Washington, DC television stations for news coverage.
Commercial Media is available from such companies as New Grace Media,and Commercial Video. Both companies as based out of Cumberland, Maryland.
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
- Allegany Magazine (Cumberland)
- Bedford Gazette (Bedford, PA)
- Cumberland Times-News (Cumberland)
- Daily American (Somerset, PA)
- Keyser Mineral Daily News-Tribune (Keyser, WV)
- Morgan Messenger (Berkeley Springs, WV)
Historic
- 1808-1809: Cumberland Impartialist
- 1809-1809: American Eagle
- 1813-1818: Allegany Freeman
- 1814-181?: Alleghany Federalist
- 1814-1814: Cumberland Gazette
- 1820-1867: Alleganian
- 1823-1832: Advocate, and Farmers' & Mechanics' Register
- 1823-1835: Maryland Advocate
- 1828-1882: Civilian
- 1829-1851: Cumberland Civilian
- 1832-1838: Advocate
- 1833-1840: Phoenix Civilian
- 1843-1902: Cumberland Alleganian
- 1851-185?: Unionist
- 1851-1856: Cumberland Miners' Journal Cumberland
- 1852-1859: Cumberland Telegraph
- 1859-1875: Civilian & Telegraph
- 1861-1861: Democratic Alleganian
- 1862-1867: Allegany County Gazette
- 1862-1868: Cumberland Union
- 1869-186?: Mountain City Times
- 1872-1891: Cumberland Daily Times
- 1876-1877: Cumberland Alleganian and Daily Times
- 1877-1878: Daily Alleganian and Times
- 1877-1879: Alleganian and Times
- 1878-1881: Cumberland Times
- 1879-187?: Independent
- 1881-1884: Daily Times
- 1882-1890: Sunday Civilian
- 1890-189?: Daily News
- 1890-189?: Weekly Civilian
- 1891-189?: Cumberland Freie Presse
- 1894-1895: Sunday Scimitar
- 1912-191?: Cumberland Press
- 1892-1916: Evening Times
- 1935-193?: Cumberland Guide
- 1871-1938: Cumberland Daily News
- 1937-1938: Voice
- 1938-1942: Voice of Labor
- 1942-194?: CIO News: Western Maryland edition
- 1961-1961: Allegany Garrett Citizen
- 1961-1983: Citizen
- 1938-1988: Cumberland News
- 1916-1988: Cumberland Evening Times
- 1988-present: Cumberland Times-News
References
- Albert L. Feldstein, Feldstein's Historic Banner Front Pages of the Cumberland Daily News, Cumberland News and Cumberland Evening News vol I: 20th Century (Cumberland: Albert L. Feldstein, 1986).
- Albert L. Feldstein, Feldstein's Historic Newspapers of Allegany County vol. II: 19th and 20th Centuries (Cumberland: Albert L. Feldstein, 1987)
Cumberland Radio Video
Radio
Cumberland is served by 18 radio stations, 14 FM and 4 AM. Most are owned by local companies, such as WTBO-WKGO Corporation, LLC, which owns WFRB 560/WFRB-FM 105.3, WRQE 106.1 and WTBO-AM 1450; Cumberland Broadcasting Company owns two stations, WCBC-AM 1270/FM 107.1. Others are owned by West Virginia Radio Corporation out of nearby Morgantown, WV.
FM band
- all stations listed cover Cumberland with a city grade signal
AM band
- all stations listed cover Cumberland with a city grade signal
Television
Cumberland is home to TBN translator, W43BP, broadcast from nearby Cresaptown, Maryland. Channel 43 covers Cumberland and Frostburg with a city-grade signal simulcasting TBN's main signal. W43BP has requested a "construction permit" to broadcast as a digital (or HD) low-power translator. This will be done "flash-cut" when it does happen. W43BP is carried on Atlantic Broadband cable channel 49 for Cumberland, Frostburg, and Keyser. W43BP is owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Local TV news is provided by Hagerstown station, WDVM-TV 25. Rarely though is Cumberland or any part of Western Maryland featured unless it is a large story.
Cable television
Atlantic Broadband provides cable service to Cumberland. Nearby communities Frostburg, Maryland, Keyser, West Virginia and Grantsville, Maryland are served Comcast (formerly Adelphia).
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