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Ever since BET was sold to Viacom, other media companies have been looking for the perfect venture and it seems that one has been established. Radio One, Inc. has decided to join with Reach Media, Inc., to create the leading African American network radio company. Radio One’s Syndication One Urban programming combined with Reach Media [...]
*TV One has announced that its President and CEO Wonya Lucas will step down at the end of the month. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Lucas, who assumed the role in May 2011, will be replaced by Alfred Liggins, the CEO and President of TV One’s parent company Radio One. Liggins will add oversight of [...]
*Mo’Shay LaRen, midday personality for 100.3 WRNB- Radio One Philadelphia contacted EURweb with great enthusiasm over the first ever EURweb Black Music Month Artist Spotlight. Mo’Shay LaRen to EURweb: “ As much as I use EURweb as a go to resource for information on my show, I can’t believe I just stumbled upon this. I have [...]
*Despite EURweb’s exclusive report of Music World Gospel artists being banned by Radio One, business is still going strong in the eyes of Music World Entertainment founder, president and CEO Mathew Knowles. So much so the music executive chooses to focus his energy on expanding his label’s reach in to the world of AM radio [...]
*Fifty never looked good! Gospel (and every once and a while R&B) singer Yolanda Adams celebrated 50 years of life recently (Aug 27), but she’s telling the world she’s not getting old, she’s getting busy. Adams’ latest album “Becoming” reached No. 5 on the Billboard charts and she’s currently touring the country on a health [...]
*(Houston, TX) – Radio One/Syndication One’s Warren Ballentine will host a three-hour radio special with Mathew Knowles and Music World Gospel’s artist roster, including interviews with Juanita Bynum, Trin-i-tee 5:7, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Brian Courtney Wilson, Micah Stampley, Pastor Rudy and new signee Bishop Lester Love, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. – [...]
*After a distinguished 45-year career in the media business, TV One President and CEO Johnathan Rodgers will retire effective July 31, 2011, the network announced. Under his leadership the last seven years, TV One, an award-winning cable network available in 53 million homes, has become recognized as the quality programming alternative for African American adults. [...]
*Radio One announced the fourth annual Radio One/St. Jude Radiothon, featuring the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, raised $1,109,351 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the nation’s top children cancer hospital. Held on Thursday, March 31, the fundraiser was broadcast on Radio One affiliate stations in 11 cities across the United States. Since 2008, the Radio [...]
*Media mogul Cathy Hughes has never been shy about speaking her mind. Now the founder and chairwoman of Radio one and TV One has stirred the pot again. Recently at a TV One event in NYC, Hughes spoke with MsDramaTV. She didn’t mince words when asked her feelings about black women in film and TV. [...]
*On Friday, Keith Washington, the Detroit singer and radio show host, found himself in a firestorm that resulted from his conversation with an ailing Aretha Franklin being broadcast over the internet. Washington, via Interactive One, the online component of Radio One, the company that owns the Detroit radio station that he works for, is speaking [...]
*Radio One recently announced their latest additions to KSOC-FM 94.5 The Soul of DFW. Beginning Sept. 9, Dee Dee “Spinderella” Roper and David “DJ MoDav” Johnson will be added to the roster. Spinderella, host of the Nationally Syndicated BackSpin mix show and soon to be recipient of the lifetime achievement award will bring her Hip [...]
*A federal judge has refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley from a security claiming the entertainer called him gay on “The Rickey Smiley Show.” According to courthousenews.com , the security guard, Henry Robinson, had apparently irked Smiley by trying to take a picture with him twice. Robinson claimed [...]
*Radio One – the nation’s leading Black oriented radio network – has approved a plan for a reverse stock split. The plan will not increase the underlying value of the company, but it will likely increase the per-share price of the company’s stock. Companies normally do reverse stock splits when the value of their stock [...]
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