Alfred c liggins iii biography of barack
Alfred Charles Liggins III was born on January 30, , in Omaha, Nebraska..
Alfred Liggins literally grew up in media.
Radio One’s Number One: Alfred C. Liggins, III, WG’95
His mother, the legendary Kathy Liggins Hughes, co-founded Radio One with limited funds, building the company station by station.
Since taking over as CEO, Alfred C.
Liggins III has turned it into a multimedia empire with 70 stations, billions in assets, and millions of mostly black nationwide listeners. “We are in the business of aggregating audience for this particular demographic and providing content to them,” says Liggins, who’s now moving into the Web, XM Satellite Radio, cable television, and expanding a national talk-show network.
Liggins learned the business at his mother’s knee.
Although Hughes, chairman of the company, remained married for two years and was just 17 at the time of her son’s 1965 birth in Omaha, NE, the young family soon moved to Washington, DC. Hughes worked at Howard University’s radio station as a host and station manager, but she had bigger plans.
By 1979 Hughes purchased WOL-AM in Washingt