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If you’ve tuned in to black radio in the past few months, chances are you’ve heard “Reality Radio,” a series of announcements in which radio pioneer Cathy Hughes asks the black community to fight a new law in Congress that she claims would “murder black-owned radio.”
Her definition of homicide? Performance Rights Act (HR 848), a bill that would require radio stations to pay royalties to artists for playing their music. The potential winners and losers in the bill being considered by Congress has been a source of heated debate. But it clearly would dim the already free-falling profits of Hughes’ company Radio One, the nation’s largest chain of black radio stations.
Now, your average multimillionaire business mogul might respond to a congressional threat by heading directly to K Street to hire the most powerful lobbyist money can buy. But we are talking about Cathy Hughes, BLACK multimillionaire business mogul, someone who has a long track record of using the airwaves to throw her weight around on behalf of the Darker Nation.
Thus Hughes’ calculus for the “Reality Radio” spots goes something like this: I am a black person + my business is under threat = black people are under threat.
“This bill is not in the interest of black people!” Hughes tells the 12 million listeners who tune in to Radio One stations each week, in spots that air as many as a dozen times a day. In one episode, Hughes publicly scolds bill co-sponsor Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston for assuring radio execs that HR 848 would not put them out of business. “She has never worked at, managed nor owned a radio station in her life,” Hughes says. “So how could she possibly know anything about what it takes or doesn’t take to operate a broadcasting facility?”
In another spot, Hughes goes after the bill’s sponsor, Rep. John Conyers—or rather, she details corruption allegations against his estranged wife. (She even points listeners to a Web site where they can learn more.) “What is it that John Conyers of Detroit, Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston, Hank Johnson of Atlanta, Mel Watt of Charlotte and Bobby Scott of Richmond don’t understand about these facts?"
“Call or e-mail them … because they don’t seem to get it.”
But longtime Radio One listeners like Debra Brooks, a 56-year- old constituent in Lee’s Houston district, are the ones who don’t get it. Brooks has no opinion on HR 848, but she doesn’t like the smell of the smear campaign against Lee.
“I thought it was so unprofessional,” Brooks said. “We shouldn’t have to listen to that. I don’t like the fact that it is a one-sided view being broadcast on the radio. It is an outright attack that can influence the public. But it is not really about the public; it’s about a business issue.”
So Brooks decided to stage a one-woman boycott. While she’s listening to the Tom Joyner Morning Show, as soon as she hears Hughes launch into one of her tirades, she switches the dial to her daughter’s hip-hop station. Problem is, Radio One owns that station, too. “That’s what’s so negative about black radio being controlled by one corporation. You don’t have anywhere to go.”
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@ Mel8018. I'm glad to see that Radio One in in the house!
The point is I should not have to shield my children from PUBLIC radio air waves that are regulated by MY tax dollars. Those degrading lyrics are being aired in the dead of the morning when children are going to school. No black child should be defiled like that. Not my daughter, not anyone else's daughter.
Go ahead and try to defend that mess coming out of Radio One on a daily basis. It piles insult upon injury that that Ms. Hughes expects black lawmakers to side with her just because they are black.
Mel8018, I would suggest that you and the rest of the Radio One crew spend your time actually coming up with a business model that does not involve hawking payday loans. In the meantime, please stop bothering the rest of us.
Cathy Hughes has been a pioneer for Black radio for years now. I found Ms. Hopkinson's article uninformed, demeaning and demorilizing towards Ms. Hughes. How can she write an article about opposing someone when according to her own words she does not know or care to know the issues?? Who else is there and has been there to speak out on behalf of artists, entertainers and black radio stations? Ms. Hopkinson says that she staged a one woman boycott because her kids heard offensive lyrics. Then play something else while your kids are in the car. (What type of parent is this to allow their kids to dictate what's playing on the radio anyway?) Ms. Hopkinson's other main concern seems to be centered around the hurt feelings of the congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Many of us can see and agree that Ms. Lee is a major sellout and has been for many years. (Just look at her record including the flip flop when Clinton was running against Obama). Many Black people that I know are not concerned about elected officials feelings we are concerned that what little power and information that we now have on our black airwaves is not further eroded. If you knew the issues Ms. Hopkinson, then mayby, you could present an opposing view of the issues on your local black radio station opposing Ms. Hughes view. However, to just down a person because you don't like the person delivering the message, or their message is interfering with your latest jam is just downright stupidity! Know the issues BEFORE you publish articles about an issue and tearing another sistah down whether you agree with them or not Ms. Hopkinson. I agree with you Ms. Hopkinson when you say SAD, yes YOUR article was!
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The real debacle seems to be should any station pay you for free advertisement
and promotion of your song? I wouldn't. I would only pay to play
the songs I want to promote and only if the record label and I had the
same sponsors.
Once this new greed is law, they will then have more power to decide who is
in rotation, who is not, and cut deals with folks that wouldn't have a hit, but
for that heavy rotation.
Cathy is right about it being a bad thing for free public radio in any developed country.
Not only does it cut into the owners bottom line, it's cenorship. Only those that can pay
get to play, and worse, those that can't pay get shut down.
Cathy is wrong about black radio dying, we are at the furneral now. Clear channel
owns her stations, hello. She is sounding the alarm.
Remember Gary bird and GBE, WLIB, NY? And when did WBLS start playing
only island music, even on a Saturday night? What? I'm not on vacation, I'm home.
So thanks WDAS and the entire sound of Philly because I think that there are only
two black stations left, and they are both broadcast in Philly.
It's funny how liberal Cathy Hughes is now mad about a "tax" that "will kill Black radio". Well in the past she has supported other liberal ideas that had an negative effect on us pro free market advocates, and now she is offended, well to bad. It just goes to show that she is only mad because her "ox is being gored".
You know what's really killing Black radio? Black Abortions
Doesn't if you are pro abortion or pro life. These numbers should shock you.
Over 1 thousand Black women have abortions everyday, about 400,000 a year.
Think about it. If you heard that 400,000 people were killed in a war anywhere in the world you would find that shocking and unacceptable. 400,000 thats 5 football stadiums filled with fans. Now imagine if those 400,000 didn't exist. Now muliply 400,000 by the 35 years since abortion was legalized and 14million. None of those 14 million listen to Black radio. None of the children they would have had listen to Black radio.
Magaret Sanger the founder of planned parenthood said it must never known that our goal is the extermination of the Black radio.
Solution let's working on promoting marriage and family. Our young people
are hit with every sexual option but marriage.Marriage should is the best option. Start by treating each other better, spending more money with each other, learning some history,
Attention Root:
During the 1920's Marcus Garvey got the New York Times to capitalize the word Negro.
Before that negro was written in lower case just like n*g*er. So unless you see yourselves as less than Jewish, Hispanic, or any other group of human beings I suggest we all make it a point to capitalize Black when referring to people.Lower case black should be used when referring to animals and inanimate objects. Back in the 1960's and 70's Black was capitalized. African American is capitalized and so should Black when referring to Black people our history, and culture.
From the article:
Black, black, or African American?
By Aly Colón
Sometimes some sentences suddenly stand out. The sentences seem familiar. But you see them in a different way.
That happened to me when I read the following sentences in Mary Sanchez's "Blurring the Color Line":
New estimates for July 2001: 36.2 million people self-identified as black. Thirty-seven million said they were Hispanic. And 37.7 million people identified as black or as black and one other race.
What stood out to me was seeing the word "black" with a lowercase "b" in the same paragraph as "Hispanic" with an uppercase "H." Since both terms referred to a people, I wondered why the word "black" didn't have an uppercase "B" to match the uppercase "H" in "Hispanic."
Now, I've seen the use of the word "black," used as another way to say African American, with a lowercase "b" before. But this time I wanted to change the lowercase "b" to an uppercase "B" so it would be "Black."
Here's how I see it. When we use terms such as African American, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans, we uppercase those terms.
So why not Blacks?
To me, it's an issue of respect, fairness, equality, and parity. When we use a lowercase letter it makes the word less visible, less prominent, and maybe less important. It's the diminutive form. My name is written with an uppercase "A" and "C" for "Aly Colón." I consider that a sign of respect......
FROM APA Style.
American Pschological Association.
Capitalize Black and White when the words are used as proper nouns to refer to social groups. Do not use color words for other ethnic groups. The manual specifies that hyphens should not be used in multiword names such as Asian American or African American.
In general, call people what they want to be called, and do not contrast one group of people with another group called "normal" people. Write "we compared people with autism to people without autism" not "we contrasted autistics to normals." Do not use pejorative terms like "stroke victim" or "stroke sufferers." Use a more neutral terminology such as "people who have had a stroke." Avoid the terms "challenged" and "special" unless the population referred to prefers this terminology (for example, Special Olympics). As a rule, use the phrase "people with _______"
http://www.owled.com/apa1.html
Having watched how Cathy Hughes grew her empire as a 25-year resident of the Washington, D.C. area, I am not surprised by her present behavior. Much like Bob Johnson, she has consistently warned black people about the evils that white people will visit on us, while never losing sight of the bottom line to the point of exploiting black artists. In the end Cathy is motivated by the green, just like any other capitalist! She certainly has the right to protect her financial interests, but don't try to sell us a bill of goods about what this is really all about!