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In my Southern Slave Voice: I’ssa been telling y’all for some quite sometime about those black radio slave ships loading up off the shores of Urban radio stations. Year after year, the ships have been taking some of the world’s best communicators out to sea. One by one they have been picking up just about

Why Radio Will Only Be An $8 Billion Business by 2016 By Jerry Del Colliano It’s easy for the traditional media business to take its eyes off the prize. Since 1996, radio has been all about consolidation, cutting expenses, what turned out to be the myth of shareholder value, Wall Street, debt and refinancing, downsizing,

Wesley South, pioneering Chicago radio owner and personality, dies at 95 By William Lee Chicago Tribune Wesley W. South, 95, a longtime journalist who was a staple at the black-owned WVON radio station, died Saturday, Jan. 9, in his home in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, according to a statement from the station. Mr. South, who

Radio as we know it is about to change. With internet radio the limitations of PC only broadcasting seem close to the end. WSJ reports Pandora has struck a deal with Pioneer that promises to make it easier for drivers to listen to its personalized radio service in cars—bringing Internet radio one step closer to

Percy Sutton a trailblazer in broadcasting and in life. NEW YORK — Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89. Marissa Shorenstein, a spokeswoman for Gov. David Paterson, confirmed that Sutton died Saturday. She did