The Nelson George Mixtape: Is It Black or Urban Radio? Since its invention in the 1940s black oriented radio had been the chief vehicles for promoting all forms of black music, from R&B to jazz, gospel to funk. For much of its history these stations had bee... Read More...
‘Urban Music’ Under Fire as Senior Execs Voice Unease Over the Widely-Used Term Is the music industry completely okay with the use of ‘urban’ as a catch-all term to describe all the different denominations of hip-hop and R&B? In a word, no. Read more from Music Business Worldwide.... Read More...
Lorenzo “Ice Tea” Thomas: The New RadioPreneur When Lorenzo “Ice Tea” Thomas landed his first radio gig at country radio WKHK in Petersburg, VA, with a high top fade far big to contain any pair of headphones, little did he know the path his journey would tr... Read More...
Apex Broadcasting Hires Radio Vet Steve Crumbley Radio veteran Steve Crumbley joins Apex Broadcasting and transitions to the upstate’s (S.C.) second largest city to assume the reigns as PD of Charleston’s top rated UAC Star 99.7(WXST) and Urban Mainstream 99.... Read More...