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.
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)1808-1809: Cumberland Impartialist1809-1809: American Eagle1813-1818: Allegany Freeman1814-181?: Alleghany Federalist1814-1814: Cumberland Gazette1820-1867: Alleganian1823-1832: Advocate, and Farmers' & Mechanics' Register1823-1835: Maryland Advocate1828-1882: Civilian1829-1851: Cumberland Civilian1832-1838: Advocate1833-1840: Phoenix Civilian1843-1902: Cumberland Alleganian1851-185?: Unionist1851-1856: Cumberland Miners' Journal Cumberland1852-1859: Cumberland Telegraph1859-1875: Civilian & Telegraph1861-1861: Democratic Alleganian1862-1867: Allegany County Gazette1862-1868: Cumberland Union1869-186?: Mountain City Times1872-1891: Cumberland Daily Times1876-1877: Cumberland Alleganian and Daily Times1877-1878: Daily Alleganian and Times1877-1879: Alleganian and Times1878-1881: Cumberland Times1879-187?: Independent1881-1884: Daily Times1882-1890: Sunday Civilian1890-189?: Daily News1890-189?: Weekly Civilian1891-189?: Cumberland Freie Presse1894-1895: Sunday Scimitar1912-191?: Cumberland Press1892-1916: Evening Times1935-193?: Cumberland Guide1871-1938: Cumberland Daily News1937-1938: Voice1938-1942: Voice of Labor1942-194?: CIO News: Western Maryland edition1961-1961: Allegany Garrett Citizen1961-1983: Citizen1938-1988: Cumberland News1916-1988: Cumberland Evening Times1988-present: Cumberland Times-NewsAlbert 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 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.
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all stations listed cover Cumberland with a city grade signalAM band
all stations listed cover Cumberland with a city grade signalCumberland 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, WHAG-TV 25. Rarely though is Cumberland or any part of Western Maryland featured unless it is a large story.
Atlantic Broadband provides cable service to Cumberland. Nearby communities Frostburg, Maryland, Keyser, West Virginia and Grantsville, Maryland are served Comcast (formerly Adelphia).
