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NBC News’ TheGrio.com Partners With Radio One’s NewsOne.com to Create The Premier African-American Digital News Alliance With the Widest Audience

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Unprecedented partnership leverages complementary assets from TheGrio and NewsOne to create an expanded platform for African-American journalism NEW YORK– NBC News and Interactive One announced a partnership this week that will form the premier African-American digital news alliance with the widest audience reach in the industry. This unprecedented partnership leverages complementary assets from NBC News’ TheGrio.com and Interactive One’s NewsOne.com to create an expanded platform for African-American journalism. Based on comScore measurement, the combined net audience of NewsOne and TheGrio was 2.1 million in May 2011, up from661,500 in May 2010. As the online usage of Black Americans continues to … Continue reading NBC News’ TheGrio.com Partners With Radio One’s NewsOne.com to Create The Premier African-American Digital News Alliance With the Widest Audience

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>A Top 20 Black Radio Disc Jockey of All Time List from NewsOne

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>The news website NewsOne list their Top 20 Radio Disc Jockeys of all time. The list is not a comprehensive one. But they are entitled to their opinion. Despite regional favorites around the country, for our money the most influential DJ’s in the history of Black Radio are Frankie Crocker and Doug “Jocko” Henderson. Both made their mark in radio in New York City radio. No doubt Frankie’s on air delivery nurtured in Buffalo, NY; along with his programming style, influenced generations of radio broadcasters for over three decades. Jocko’s on-air rhyming style on Philadelphia and New York radio in … Continue reading >A Top 20 Black Radio Disc Jockey of All Time List from NewsOne