The HistoryMakers video oral history with Cathy Hughes.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Cathy Hughes.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (18 video files (8 hr., 56 min., 47 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hughes, Cathy, -- 1947- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312727

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Cathy Hughes Cathy Hughes
Other authors / contributors:	Hughes, Cathy, 1947- interviewee. Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. Stearns, Scott, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Videographer, Scott Stearns. Julieanna L.. Richardson, interviewer. Recorded Lanham, Maryland 2004 September 21. Recorded Lanham, Maryland 2005 March 2. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Media entrepreneur Cathy Hughes was born in Omaha, Nebraska on April 22, 1947. She began her career in 1969 when she began working at KOWH, a black radio station in Omaha. In 1973, she became sales director at WHUR-FM in Washington, D.C. She was promoted two years later to general manager, boosting station sales revenues into the millions. In 1979, she and her husband, Dewey Hughes, purchased a small Washington radio station, WOL, creating Radio One. When her marriage ended, she bought her husband's share in the station. Over time, the station became profitable. Her own talk show became a hit. Purchasing stations in other cities, Radio One grew to become the nation's largest black-owned radio chain. In January 2004, Hughes' company launched a cable channel, TV One, aimed at African Americans. Hughes was the first African American woman to head a media company publicly traded on the U.S. Stock Exchange.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (18 video files (8 hr., 56 min., 47 sec.)) : sound, color. 085647
Playing Time:	08:56:47
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Videographer, Scott Stearns.