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Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based American media conglomerate. Founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, the company primarily operates media properties targeting African Americans. It is the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company in the United States, operating 50 radio stations and majority-owning the syndicator Reach Media, as well as its digital arm Interactive One, and a 51% interest in the cable network TV One. As of 2014, it was the ninth-highest-earning African-American-owned business in the United States.

Urban One was founded as Radio One in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, a then-recently divorced single mother, with the purchase of the Washington, D.C. radio station WOL-AM for $995,000. She changed the station's programming format from all-music to one that examined politics and culture from an African American perspective. Hughes purchased her second station, WMMJ in Washington, seven years later, which began to turn a profit once she converted it into a rhythm and blues station. This established Radio One's early strategy of purchasing small, underperforming radio stations in urban markets and refocusing them to serve the demographics of their communities.

As of November 2020, Urban One's Radio One division operates 50 radio stations in 14 markets:
Atlanta
WAMJ 107.5 FM Urban adult contemporary
WHTA 107.9 FM Mainstream urban
WPZE 102.5 FM Urban gospel
WUMJ 97.5 FM Urban adult contemporary (Simulcast of W275BK)

Baltimore
WERQ-FM 92.3 FM Mainstream urban
WOLB 1010 AM News/Talk
WWIN 1400 AM Urban gospel
WWIN-FM 95.9 FM Urban adult contemporary

Charlotte
WOSF 105.3 FM Urban adult contemporary
WQNC 92.7 FM Urban contemporary
WPZS 100.9 FM Urban gospel

Cincinnati
WOSL 100.3 FM Urban adult contemporary
WDBZ 1230 AM Talk/Urban gospel
WIZF 101.1 FM Urban contemporary

Cleveland
WENZ 107.9 FM Mainstream urban
WERE 1490 AM News/Talk
WJMO 1300 AM Urban gospel
WZAK 93.1 FM Urban adult contemporary

Columbus, Ohio
WCKX 107.5 FM Mainstream Urban
WJYD 107.1 FM Urban Gospel (Licensed to Circleville, Ohio)
WBMO 106.3 FM Mainstream Urban (simulcasts WCKX; Licensed to London, Ohio)
WXMG 95.5 FM Urban adult contemporary (Licensed to Lancaster, Ohio)

Dallas/Fort Worth
KBFB 97.9 FM Rhythmic contemporary
KZMJ 94.5 FM Urban adult contemporary (Licensed to Gainesville, Texas)

Detroit
WGPR 107.5 FM Mainstream urban (Under LMA with International Free and Accepted Modern Masons)

Houston
KBXX 97.9 FM Rhythmic contemporary
KMJQ 102.1 FM Urban adult contemporary (Operates an urban gospel format on KMJQ-HD2)
KROI 92.1 FM CHR/Top-40

Indianapolis
WHHH 96.3 FM Rhythmic contemporary
WNOW-FM 100.9 FM CHR/Top 40
WNOW-FM 105.1 FM Regional Mexican/Spanish-language
WTLC 1310 AM Urban gospel
WTLC-FM 106.7 FM Urban adult contemporary

Philadelphia
WPPZ-FM 107.9 FM Urban gospel
WRNB 100.3 FM Urban adult contemporary

Raleigh/Durham
WFXC 107.1 FM Urban adult contemporary
WFXK 104.3 FM Urban adult contemporary (simulcasts WFXK)
WNNL 103.9 FM Urban gospel
WQOK 97.5 FM Mainstream urban

Richmond, Virginia
WCDX 92.1 FM Mainstream urban
WKJM 99.3 FM Urban adult contemporary
WKJS 105.7 FM Urban adult contemporary (simulcasts WKJM)
WPZZ 104.7 FM Urban gospel
WXGI 950 AM Sports
WTPS 1240 AM Sports (simulcasts WXGI)

Washington, D.C.
WKYS 93.9 FM Urban contemporary
WMMJ 102.3 FM Urban adult contemporary
WOL 1450 AM News/Talk
WPRS-FM 104.1 FM Urban gospel
WYCB 1340 AM Urban Gospel

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TV One is an American basic cable television channel that is owned as a joint venture between Urban One and NBCUniversal. Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, TV One's programming targets African American adults with a broad mix of original lifestyle and entertainment-oriented series, documentaries, movies, concert performances and reruns of sitcoms from the 1970s through the 2000s.

As of February 2015, TV One is available to approximately 57 million pay television households (48.9% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.

TV One launched on January 19, 2004, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a competitor to the longer-established Black Entertainment Television. At the time of its launch, the channel was in approximately 2.2 million homes in 16 markets. On July 7, 2008, the channel's president and CEO Johnathan Rodgers announced that TV One would provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention that August. In 2011, TV One's original co-owner Comcast acquired NBCUniversal, effectively integrating TV One and the other Comcast Entertainment Group channels into NBCUniversal's portfolio.

In August 2012, TV One updated its on-air look and logo, as part of a plan to "tell stories about how African-American life unfolds and to distinguish it from a growing number of competitors". On July 9, 2013, TV One announced that it would debut its first live one-hour, weekday morning news program that would be hosted by commentator Roland S. Martin. The program, News One Now, premiered on November 4, 2013.

In December 2014, Brad Siegel was hired as president of TV One. Siegel was formerly president of Turner Entertainment Networks, and vice chairman of Up TV, which he co-founded in 2004.

In February 2016, TV One updated their logo again, along with a new slogan: "Represent."

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Cleo TV is an American cable television network owned by Urban One. The network serves young millennial and Generation X African American women, and serves as a complement to TV One. The network officially launched on January 19, 2019, after a week-long soft-launch period highlighting its programming offerings. At launch, Dish Network, Comcast Xfinity and Charter Spectrum served as the network's main debut base.

The network's programming is mainly made up of lifestyle programming, syndicated sitcoms and dramas, and black film telecasts.