Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Making of a Media Monster ©
Originally, WLIB-AM was white-owned with its broadcast studios on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem. When former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton formed Inner-City Broadcasting Co., the buzz was how a person on a public servant’s salary could assemble a media […]
“Open Line”: What’s Going On?
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr. On April 26, 2012, ESPN agreed to lease the radio license of WRKS-FM and to offer Spanish sports programming to the Latino community. Any transaction under FCC law must be in the “public interest”. Under a […]