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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. JRN and JMN provide local radio stations with satellite-delivered formats. They also offer other services to local radio such as news and talk programs, syndicated radio shows, music scheduling, show preparation, and music and sales Research. Jones Media Network also owns many national syndication shows such as Lia, All Night with Danny Wright, The Ed Schultz Show, The Stephanie Miller Show, The Bill Press Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Clark Howard Show, and A&E Network's Live by Request. Jones Media Networks & Jones Radio Networks own production studios in: New York, NY; Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, DC; Seattle, WA; Centennial, CO; and Florida. Clark Howard and Neal Boortz are broadcast from the studios of WSB-AM in Atlanta, GA; those shows are produced by Cox Radio. Jones Media Networks reaches about 1.3 billion weekly listeners in radio. In 2006, Jones purchased TM Century, a Dallas-based company providing jingles and production services for radio stations across the country.
Classic Rock (formerly Rock Classics) was a 24-hour music format produced by Dial Global Networks. Its playlist consists mostly of contemporary classic rock music from artists such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Halen, The Rolling Stones. The format was launched in July 1997 by Jones Senior Director of Programming Jon Holiday and has been programmed by Adam Fendrich since 2001. Although "Rock Classics" wasn't affected by the recent purchased of Jones Radio Networks by Triton Media Group, it was relocated into Dial Global's portfolio and re-branded as "Classic Rock" on December 29, 2008. However, Dial Global's "Adult Rock and Roll" was dissolved to make this happen.
Good Time Oldies is a 24-hour music format offered to local radio stations across the country that was originally produced by Jones Radio Networks. After the sales of Jones Radio Networks to Dial Global in 2008, the format was absorbed into D.G.`s "Kool Oldies" format. However, due to radio stations demand, the Good Time Oldies format was brought to Dial Global. The format was programmed by program director Jon Holiday from 1994 through 2003. Good Time Oldies targets a key demographic of white men age 50 to 64. The majority of the network's playlist is from the 1960s and 70s with scattered tunes from the 50s and 80s. Jones Radio Networks was purchased by Triton Media Group, and "Good Time Oldies" was merged to Dial Global's "Kool Gold" network and then quickly brought back as Good Time Oldies due to affiliate demand. It is also available through the Dial Global "local" division as well. Dial Global's satellite-delivered Kool Gold program eventually evolved into Westwood One's "Classic Hits Total" format, after the two companies merged. D.J.s on the Jones Radio Networks Good Time Oldies feed included Jay "The Fox That Rocks" Fox, Gary Outlaw and Dave Michaels' "Dave's Diner" which first aired on the G.T.O. feed in 1992. Fox and Michaels remained with the format during its eventual change into Westwood One's "Classic Hits" format. In spring 2014, Westwood One (which merged with Dial Global in 2012) announced that a network branded as Good Time Oldies would replace The True Oldies Channel beginning in June. (Cumulus lost the rights to the True Oldies Channel after its host, founder and owner, Scott Shannon, left the company in February, taking the format with him a few months later.) Good Time Oldies was restocked primarily with talent from Cumulus's "Classic Hits Format", including Maria Danza and "Smokin" Kevan Browning. Good Time Oldies is the 1st joint format venture between Cumulus and its latest acquisition, Westwood One. Its flagship station as the HD2 subchannel of KRBE in Houston, Texas. On March 20, 2025, Westwood One announced that the format would be discontinued one month later (on April 20), along with their Variety Hits Pop, Variety Hits Rock, Hits Now, Classic Hits Gold, Classic Rock X and Rock 2.0 formats. At 11:59:50 on April 20, 2025, the satellite feed of Good Time Oldies went silent. The final song heard on the format was the Bee Gees version of More Than a Woman, and the final personality heard was Steve "Stu" Stuart. Some of the final stations to air the format included: KSEO (switched to Westwood One's "Classic Hits - Rock" format) WTBO (switched to Local Radio Networks' "Super Hits," another syndicated oldies format. Dennis Harrington is one of the hosts on this format, and was ironically part of the original Jones Radio Networks' Good Time Oldies format in the mid-2000s.) WWIZ (switched to Westwood One's Adult Contemporary format ahead of the change) WEGG (airs a locally based oldies format, and continues to use branding and liners from Good Time Oldies)
Bobby Jones (born September 18, 1938) is an American gospel singer, television host, and radio broadcaster from Nashville, Tennessee. He is best known as the host and executive producer of several cable television programs, most notably Bobby Jones Gospel, which premiered on Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 1980 and became one of the longest-running original series in cable television history. NPR referred to him as the Ed Sullivan of gospel music, for his role in launching the careers of many gospel stars. On radio, Jones hosts The Bobby Jones Radio Show, a daily one-hour music program distributed by American Urban Radio Networks. He won a Grammy Award for best soul gospel performance by a duo or group for "I’m So Glad I’m Standing Here Today", a duet with country singer Barbara Mandrell, and received the 2025 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.