We’re celebrating the forty second anniversary of Radio One on October third in honor of our founder and chairperson Cathy Hughes. The imaginative and prescient began with WOL Information Speak 1450 & 95.9 in Washington DC and now has grown right into a community of over 50 radio stations serving the African American neighborhood nationwide.
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Take a stroll down reminiscence lane studying of Radio One’s story from the very starting within the interactive timeline under.
Hughes, who celebrated her seventy fifth birthday again in April, started to construct her empire as a younger 20something on AM radio for KOWH. The years following would lead to a transfer to Washington, D.C., the place she’d grow to be the state’s first-ever feminine Normal Supervisor of a radio station. Later she’d do different monumental issues within the historical past of Radio One, together with creating The Quiet Storm format, spearheading The Cathy Hughes Morning Present for 11 years, serving to to introduce City Grownup Modern as a radio format, and at last partnering up along with her son, Alfred C. Liggins III, to reign as CEO along with her as Chairperson. Then got here TV One — it’s now the most important Black-owned TV community — and REACH Media which introduced you this very web site.
It was solely becoming that she was inducted into the Black Music & Leisure Stroll of Fame earlier this summer season, with Hughes being honored as a Foundational Inductee and respectfully given the title of “Queen” on her plaque. Gushing over being positioned subsequent to pricey good friend T.D. Jakes, Mrs. H says enthusiastically of the glory, “I couldn’t have higher positioning! I’m so thrilled to know that it’s right here in Atlanta, and the way many individuals will previous that, look down, and skim them as they go alongside.”
You deserve all of it, queen!
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The story of Cathy Hughes and Radio One is a really inspiring story of Black excellence, which got here with many nos however a lot persistence till it turned the sure she wanted to succeed. She as soon as instructed The Baltimore Solar on the subject of pushing by way of adversity, “For each 99 individuals who inform you ‘no,’ the possibilities are that the a centesimal will say ‘sure.’,” later including for reference, “My daddy was an accountant and he used to all the time discuss in regards to the legislation of averages.”
Given her dad was the primary Black particular person to earn an accounting diploma from Creighton College, we’ll exit on a limb and assume he knew precisely what he was speaking about.
Comfortable forty second birthday Radio One, and far congrats to its founder, the one and solely Mrs. Cathy Hughes! Right here’s to a different half a century and extra.
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