From Guest Blogger: AKIEM BAILUM A debate is unfolding: Why Don’t You Hear Old-School Hip Hop on the Radio? I say this because when it comes to radio formats, Hip-Hop radio (Mainstream Urban/Urban Contemporary) is almost as bad as the Country music format is when it comes to giving the artists of the “past” a […]
Jamillah Muhammad, the program director at Radio One’s Majic 102.3, WMMJ, in Washington, D.C. has been released from her position. Muhammad, a Midwestern native had come aboard with a lot of fanfare a year and a half ago, after successful programming stints in Chicago and Detroit. Majic 102.1 overhauled it’s image and fired its entire […]
Arbitron Inc., the media and marketing research company that is the radio industry’s primary source of figuring out who is listening to which radio station and for how long via the Portable People Meter (PPM), has issued the following report regarding Black Radio. “Nearly 94% of Black consumers aged 12 years and over listen to […]