The HistoryMakers video oral history with Melody Spann-Cooper.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Melody Spann-Cooper.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 9 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Spann-Cooper, Melody, -- 1964- -- 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/11318752

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Melody Spann-Cooper Melody Spann-Cooper
Other authors / contributors:	Spann-Cooper, Melody, 1964- interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. Stearns, Scott, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Scott Stearns. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 4. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Radio station executive Melody Spann-Cooper was born on August 4, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. After earning her B.A. degree in criminal justice from Loyola University in 1987, she joined Chicago's WVON as a radio personality in 1980, following in the footsteps of her father, disc jockey Pervis "the Blues Man" Spann. At WVON, one of the nation's few African American talk radio stations, Spann-Cooper rose from news director, to program director, to president and general manager. In 1999, she acquired controlling interest of WVON's parent company, Midway Broadcasting, in a sector in which minority ownership of commercial stations had fallen since 1996. Under Spann-Cooper's leadership, WVON's revenues rose from $700,000 in 1994 to $2.4 million in 2002. In addition to appearing on CNN's political debate program, Crossfire, Spann-Cooper contributed her time and expertise to numerous professional and service organizations.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 9 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color. 020941
Playing Time:	02:09:41
Production Credits:	Videographer, Scott Stearns.