Radio One

:The name "Radio 1" is also used for the primary service of several broadcasters. See that page for more. For the Jimi Hendrix Experience album, see Radio One (album).

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Radio 1 - Broadcaster - Jimi Hendrix Experience - Radio One (album)

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Radio One, Inc {{nasdaq|ROIA}}is an African-American owned U.S. company which owns and operates 69 radio stations in 22 American cities, and programs a channel on XM Satellite Radio. The company is headed by Cathy Hughes, Chairman and her son Alfred Liggins, CEO. The company's target listeners are African-Americans in urban areas. Radio One also owns a 40% interest in TV One, a cable and satellite TV network begun in early 2004 in partnership with Comcast and a handful of investors (including DirecTV, which added the network to its lineup and became a minority shareholder in January 2005). As with other large radio broadcasting companies, Radio One has a strategy of acquiring stations in a given market and making sudden format changes they believe will be profitable. Radio One tends to favor urban-based formats targetting African-American listeners, and makes format changes to target their demographic. One example of this occurred when Radio One acquired country radio station WCAV, near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999, and transformed the station into WBOT, "Hot 97.7," with an Urban format. However, the most notorious incident of this occurred in Philadelphia in 2005.

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U.S. - Company - Radio station - XM Satellite Radio - Cable - Satellite TV - Network - 2004 - Comcast - DirecTV - January - 2005 - Acquiring - Profitable - African-American - WCAV - Boston, Massachusetts - 1999 - WBOT

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TV One targets African-American viewers over 25 (unlike competitor Black Entertainment Television, which has moved toward a younger demographic since its acquisition by Viacom). The network airs original lifestyle programming, and reruns of shows such as 227, Good Times, Martin, and select episodes from the first ten seasons of It's Showtime at the Apollo.

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Black Entertainment Television - Viacom - 227 - Good Times - Martin - It's Showtime at the Apollo

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