Catherine Woods Hughes

(1947- ) born in Omaha. Radio broadcasting company executive, founder of Radio One Network in 1980, the first 24-hour talk radio station to cover news from an African-American perspective, head of a network of local stations from St. Louis to Washington, the nation’s largest station-group for black listeners, ranked as 179th top women-owned business executive by Working Woman in June 1999. Consult Washington Post, March 6, 1995, pp. D-1 to D-3 and Forbes, September 20, 1999, pp. 86-88 and Current Biography (2000) 303-306 and Omaha World Herald, February 25, 2001, p. E-1 and Notable Black American Women, Vol 3 (Gale, 2003) 299-301 and Crete /NE/ News, June 2, 2004, p. B-7.

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