Women in broadcasting ownership

[Donna Halper]

On 8/11/2011 5:52 PM, Doug Drown wrote:
> Here's an interesting question for everyone on the Board:  Who can come up with names of women who have owned broadcasting stations?   This occurred to me this morning.  I can think of two off the top of my head:  Katharine Graham, obviously, of Post-Newsweek; and Helen Sloane Dudman and daughter Martha, who for years owned WDEA and WWMJ in Ellsworth, Maine.  Beyond them, I'm scratching my head trying to think of others.
>    
Do you mean just in New England, or everywhere?  In New England, the 
first women owners I know about were in 1940 when two women bought WOCB 
on Cape Cod.  I'll go find their names for you.  But the first woman in 
the USA to own a station was Marie Zimmerman of Vinton Iowa, who put 
WIAE on the air in the summer of 1922.