The 12 Things About Urban Radio™ are media planning and buying insights distilled from 5 years of research on urban radio. A  groundbreaking text that redefines urban radio's prowess as an American media enterprise and business model. Reports and dispatches from the new urban frontier delivered to you monthly (free). A video documentary taking you behind the scenes of the making of the book Urban Radio - Unlocked! and the discovery of the first social media.

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"What you don't know will kill you"  Randall Robinson (Transafrica) from a lecture on Globilazation.

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     Urban Market Report: A Tapestry of Media & Life® - Urban Radio:  The Power Unlocked!

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting 

 

Audience Development, Durham Arts Council
          
      

Talk Radio & Why It’s Important, AMAG Awareness Magazine 

Why Diverse U.S. Cable Audiences are Leading the Way; Worldwide Audience Measurement Conference (WAM) Los Angeles

Cable World 'The Urban Marketplace', August 2002

The Information Society and the Black Community “Blacks & Information Technology”

Railroad Man, Urban Hiker, May 2001

A Look Towards Advancement: Minority Employment in Cable, National Association of Minorities in Communications

Cable Television Journal of Marketing “Cable’s Hidden Markets”, Fall 1998

Media Research Club of Chicago Review “Hidden Markets: Population Changes and the Urban Frontier” August 1998

Minority Ownership: Obstacles & Opportunities in the Media and Telecommunications Industries, National Association of Minorities in Communications, 1998

Hidden Markets and The New Urban Frontier, 1997

Proceedings for Technical Papers, Society for Cable Television Engineers, 1991

Communications Technology "What's a Fuzzie: Customer Service for Field Personnel”, December 1990

Communications Technology "The Missing Rung", January 1991

CED "What's a Fuzzie: Customer Service for Field Personnel”, Dec. 1990

Black Television Audience Heterogeneity:  A Uses & Gratifications Approach, Master’s Thesis, National Institute of Education (ERIC) 1985:  Winner of the Alan Bussel Research Award (Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award

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