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Radio One Founder, Cathy Hughes Profiled

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Cathy Hughes, Radio One: From Teen Mom To Media Mogul When Cathy Hughes got pregnant at age 16, her friends said her life was over. Her mother kicked her out of the house. Hughes said she “was in shock.” But pregnancy “was the beginning,” Hughes said. The birth of her son, Alfred Liggins, as “an impetus to achieve,” Hughes told The Huffington Post. “It was the reason I took my life seriously for the first time as a teenager and made a promise to myself, my son and God that he would not become a black statistic.” Hughes did end … Continue reading Radio One Founder, Cathy Hughes Profiled

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>Radio One Decides on Move to Silver Spring, MD instead of D.C.

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>Radio One had backed out of plans to relocate from Lanham, Maryland to Washington D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood more than a year ago. That move would have been a homecoming of sorts for founder Cathy Hughes, since the planned project would have been near WHUR radio and Howard University, the place where she made her mark in the radio industry in the mid-1970’s. Radio One has instead decided to move it’s corporate headquarters to the top floor of an office building right across the D.C. border in Silver Spring, MD, which also houses their cable channel TV One. The company will … Continue reading >Radio One Decides on Move to Silver Spring, MD instead of D.C.

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>Things Looking Up for Radio One, Company Buys Back $15 million of it’s Stock

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>CEO Alfred Liggins announced today that Radio One, Inc. authorized a $15 million stock repurchase program and forecast an 11% rise in first-quarter revenue. The company is also buying out DirecTV’s interest, its minority partner in TV One. Read more in the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading >Things Looking Up for Radio One, Company Buys Back $15 million of it’s Stock

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>Clear Channel donates four radio stations to support minority ownership initiative

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>Clear Channel Radio has agreed to donate stations and equipment to the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council as part of a move to increase diversity in media ownership. Clear Channel Radio will donate a number of AM station to the council through the MMTC-Clear Channel Ownership Diversity Initiative. Initially, Clear Channel Radio plans to donate AM radio stations KYHN in Fort Smith, Ark.; WTFX in Winchester, Va.; KMFX in Rochester, Minn.; and WHJA in Laurel, Miss. The council will work with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Education Foundation’s Broadcast Leadership Training Program to use these radio stations for training … Continue reading >Clear Channel donates four radio stations to support minority ownership initiative

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>Radio One’s Barry Mayo to the Rescue in Cincinnati

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>Big Shake-Up At Radio One’s WIZ, MOJO and WDBZ-AMfrom the Cincinnati Enquirer John Kiesewetter Big shake-up in the front offices at Radio One’s stations here: Regional VP Rick Porter and VP/GM Lisa Thal over WIZ, MOJO and gospel WDBZ-AM were fired Monday. Whatever happen was so serious that Radio One’s radio division president himself — Barry Mayo — from the Maryland corporate office is here running WIZF-FM (101.1), WMOJ-FM (100.3) and WDBZ-AM (1230). Thal and Porter formerly worked for Clear Channel. Thal joined Radio One here in 2006, several months before the company bought the intellectual property of “MOJO” (then … Continue reading >Radio One’s Barry Mayo to the Rescue in Cincinnati

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>Changes in the Internet That You Didn’t Know Anything About

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>So this is the reason my computer is running slow??? The telecommunication companies recently achieved a big victory in court over the fight to control the Internet.They can control the speed of my Internet! They can control how I surf the web! The price grid you see is not TV programming packages from Comcast or DirecTV, this my friends would be the websites you would be able to go to if telecommunications companies have their way. That’s right your ISP (Internet Service Provider) would have complete control over the Internet. “Hey, that $49.99 package sounds like a good deal on … Continue reading >Changes in the Internet That You Didn’t Know Anything About

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>Cathy Hughes’ "One Station for the Black Nation"

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>Cross promotion is a must in the world of Radio One, including promoting upcoming “booty jumps” on TV One during Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference like… this. There’s no secret that Radio One looks at Clear Channel as the business model of success when it comes to media. Even though Clear Channel is having financial difficulties, Radio One is hellbent on becoming a media conglomerate like Clear Channel. It’s syndication come hell or high water.Many say they are well on their way with the many companies they own that distributes content throughout the country. Radio One’s television presence comes … Continue reading >Cathy Hughes’ "One Station for the Black Nation"

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>Radio One Shareholders Approve Reverse Split

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> Radio One Inc., the largest African-American owned radio stations, said Tuesday that its shareholders have approved a reverse stock split. At its annual stockholders meeting, Radio One said it received approval for a reverse split ranging from 1-for-2 to 1-for-50 to be done before the next annual shareholders meeting. But the company’s board said it has not yet decided whether to set a reverse split. In a reverse split, a greater number of shares are exchanged for a smaller batch, with a goal of reducing the number of shares outstanding and increasing the stock price.Radio One also said that … Continue reading >Radio One Shareholders Approve Reverse Split

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>A U.S. House Committee puts PPM and Arbitron on the Hot Seat

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> Has PPM affected urban radio ratings and the jobs of former radio personalities like Toshamakia? The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (who even knew there was such a committee) is calling in Arbitron as a chief witness as it seeks to examine the decline in ratings being experienced by minority radio stations. The hearing will be held Wednesday 12/2/09. Arbitron immediately welcomed the opportunity to testify. The committee is under the gavel of Edolphus Towns (D-NY), who said, “With an unprecedented decline in ratings among popular minority television and radio stations, we must explore the possibility of … Continue reading >A U.S. House Committee puts PPM and Arbitron on the Hot Seat