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Radio One and Reach Media Announce Mark Charnock as New Chief Digital Officer

Largest Urban Radio Company Taps Monster Executive to Grow Digital Audio Business

SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins announced Mark Charnock as the new Chief Digital Officer of Reach Media and the Local Radio One Group during a recent quarterly earnings call.  Liggins said, "We have made a significant new hire for our local digital business, which I believe will help us grow that revenue stream over time." 

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Mark Charnock comes to Reach Media and Radio One most recently from Monster as Senior Vice President, Media and Sales at Monster, a company he had been with for 13 years in various sales positions of increasing responsibility. Charnock is a strategic, multi-faceted and entrepreneurial sales professional with proven success as a leader in both start-up and established media firms. Building infrastructure and growing business capacity and digital revenue streams is what Charnock has become respected for over his progressive 23 year career.  His expertise in web-based products and sales, including starting three companies is expected to be a good fit in the Radio One, soon to be renamed, Urban One entrepreneurial, multi-media culture. 

About Radio One, Inc.
Radio One, Inc. (radio-one.com), together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified media company that primarily targets African-American and urban consumers. It is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies, currently owning and/or operating 56 stations in 16 urban markets in the United States. Through its controlling interest in Reach Media, Inc. (blackamericaweb.com), the Company also operates syndicated programming including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Russ Parr Morning Show, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Get up Morning! with Erica Campbell, the DL Hughley Show, Bishop T.D. Jakes' Empowering Moments, the Ed Lover Show, the Willie Moore Jr Show, the Nightly Spirit with Darlene McCoy and the Reverend Al Sharpton Show. Beyond its core radio broadcasting franchise, Radio One owns Interactive One (interactiveone.com), the fastest growing and definitive digital resource for Black and Latin Americans, reaching millions each month through social content, news, information, and entertainment. Interactive One operates a number of branded sites including News One (news), The Urban Daily (men), Hello Beautiful (women), Global Grind (Millennials) and social networking websites such as BlackPlanet and MiGente. The Company also owns TV One, LLC (tvone.tv), a cable/satellite network programming serving more than 57 million households, offering a broad range of real-life and entertainment-focused original programming, classic series, movies and music designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult Black viewers. Additionally, One Solution combines the dynamics of the Radio One's holdings to provide brands with an integrated and effectively engaging marketing approach that reaches 82% of Black Americans throughout the country.

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SOURCE Radio One

Yashima White AziLove, corpcomm@radio-one.com

SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins announced Mark Charnock as the new Chief Digital Officer of Reach Media and the Local Radio One Group during a recent quarterly earnings call.  Liggins said, "We have made a significant new hire for our local digital business, which I believe will help us grow that revenue stream over time." 

Radio One, Inc. logo.

Mark Charnock comes to Reach Media and Radio One most recently from Monster as Senior Vice President, Media and Sales at Monster, a company he had been with for 13 years in various sales positions of increasing responsibility. Charnock is a strategic, multi-faceted and entrepreneurial sales professional with proven success as a leader in both start-up and established media firms. Building infrastructure and growing business capacity and digital revenue streams is what Charnock has become respected for over his progressive 23 year career.  His expertise in web-based products and sales, including starting three companies is expected to be a good fit in the Radio One, soon to be renamed, Urban One entrepreneurial, multi-media culture. 

About Radio One, Inc.
Radio One, Inc. (radio-one.com), together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified media company that primarily targets African-American and urban consumers. It is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies, currently owning and/or operating 56 stations in 16 urban markets in the United States. Through its controlling interest in Reach Media, Inc. (blackamericaweb.com), the Company also operates syndicated programming including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Russ Parr Morning Show, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Get up Morning! with Erica Campbell, the DL Hughley Show, Bishop T.D. Jakes' Empowering Moments, the Ed Lover Show, the Willie Moore Jr Show, the Nightly Spirit with Darlene McCoy and the Reverend Al Sharpton Show. Beyond its core radio broadcasting franchise, Radio One owns Interactive One (interactiveone.com), the fastest growing and definitive digital resource for Black and Latin Americans, reaching millions each month through social content, news, information, and entertainment. Interactive One operates a number of branded sites including News One (news), The Urban Daily (men), Hello Beautiful (women), Global Grind (Millennials) and social networking websites such as BlackPlanet and MiGente. The Company also owns TV One, LLC (tvone.tv), a cable/satellite network programming serving more than 57 million households, offering a broad range of real-life and entertainment-focused original programming, classic series, movies and music designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult Black viewers. Additionally, One Solution combines the dynamics of the Radio One's holdings to provide brands with an integrated and effectively engaging marketing approach that reaches 82% of Black Americans throughout the country.

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To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radio-one-and-reach-media-announce-mark-charnock-as-new-chief-digital-officer-300370041.html

SOURCE Radio One

Yashima White AziLove, corpcomm@radio-one.com