Cathy Hughes

Who is Cathy Hughes?

Catherine L. Hughes, born Catherine Elizabeth Woods in Omaha, Nebraska on April 22, 1947, is an African-American entrepreneur, radio and television personality and business executive. Hughes founded the media company Radio One and later expanded into TV One, the company went public in 1998, making Hughes the first and only African-American woman to head a publicly traded corporation at the time. In the 1970s, Hughes created the urban radio format called "The Quiet Storm" on Howard University's radio station with its very first disc jockey she chose, the late Melvin Lindsay.