According to Lee Bailey at EURWeb
“All Radio One personnel were told to pull all Music World artists out of rotation immediately and indefinitely! We were told that the mandate came straight from Ms. Hughes and that there would be ramifications for anyone playing or mentioning a Music World artist or song on air,” a Radio One employee, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told us.
Both Mathew Knowles and Cathy Hughes are entrepreneurs, I’m sure they BOTH know how incredibly hard it is for black businesses to survive and thrive. We have to be magicians and pull 20 rabbits out of the hat just to get our foot in the door. Why is this the best solution?
This is childish. Shame on Radio One. Why should his artists have to pay for this indiscretion? Sue him but leave his artists out of it. If the records are selling they deserve a chance to get radio exposure. Finally, Radio One does not allow programmers to talk to the trades and they rarely if ever send us news it’s a good thing I have a ton of contacts over there but the trades are trying to run our businesses too. Read the rest of this story here
