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August
13, 2009
VIA
EDGAR
Mr. Larry
Spirgel
Assistant
Director
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporate Finance
Mail Stop
3720
100 F
Street
Washington,
DC 20549
Re:
Comment Letters dated August 6, 2009 concerning Preliminary Proxy Statement
filed July 28, 2009 and Form 10K filed March 16, 2009, as amended April 30,
2009
Dear Mr.
Spirgel:
On behalf
of Radio One, Inc. (the “Company”), we acknowledge receipt of those certain
Comment Letters dated August 6, 2009 concerning our Preliminary Proxy Statement
filed July 28, 2009, Form 10K filed March 16, 2009, as amended April 30, 2009,
and Form 10Q For the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2009, all File No.
000-25969 (the “Comment Letters”). In follow up to conversations with
members of your staff, due to the timing of receipt of the Comment Letters, the
vacation and travel schedules of certain of our executives, the need to
coordinate with our Audit and Compensation Committees and the need to coordinate
with outside resources in connection with our responses, we hereby provide
notice that we will require additional time to provide responses to the Comments
Letters. We currently anticipate providing you with responses to the
Comment Letters by August 31, 2009. If you have any questions or
concerning relating to any of the foregoing, please do not hesitate to contact
me at 301.429.4658 or Kristopher Simpson, Associate General Counsel at
301.429.4682. Thank you in advance for your
consideration.
Very
truly yours,
/s/
Michael
Plantamura
Vice
President and General Counsel