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Dorothy Edwards Brunson (March 13, 1939 – July 31, 2011) was a notable African-American broadcaster. Between 1973 and 1979, Brunson was an executive with Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, which owned five radio stations including WLIB and WBLS in New York City. After leaving Inner City Broadcasting, Brunson was the first African-American female to own a radio station in 1979, WEBB in Baltimore, Maryland. She also later purchased radio stations in Atlanta and Wilmington, North Carolina.〔 Brunson would sell off her radio stations in 1990 to provide funding to establish WGTW-TV in Burlington, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, becoming the first African-American woman to establish a television station.〔(Baltimore Sun: "Radio station WEBB is sold owner says format to stay", October 19, 1990. )〕〔(Baltimore Sun: "Dorothy E. Brunson, radio station owner, dies", August 4, 2011. ) 〕 She later sold WGTW to Trinity Broadcasting Network. ==Death== Brunson succumbed to ovarian cancer at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore on July 31, 2011, at age 72.〔〔http://obit.josephhbrown.com/obit_display.cgi?id=957991&listing=Current&clientid=josephhbrown〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Brunson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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