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 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
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 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
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, 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).
