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 […]

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“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 […]

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