High-Frequency Profits.

From: Black Enterprise | Date: June 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

See how Radio One Inc. has soared by inviting shareholders to tune in

CLANG-CLANG! CLANG-CLANG! WHEN THE STOCK market opened to the sound of the bell Thursday morning, May 6, 1999. Catherine Liggins Hughes breathed a deep sigh of relief. That day marked the end of an era for her 20-year-old business. Radio One Inc.--the company she had nurtured from a single-station start-up to a burgeoning broadcasting enterprise. A divorce from Dewey Hughes. her husband and the company's co-founder, had left her holding the bag a few years into the business. But, without missing a beat, she ...

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