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Tonight's GRHOF Banquet

Hey if James Brown's daughter and one of his wives drove over from Augusta to accept, they sure took it seriously.
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One of his wives drove over? LOL. Seriously, I highly doubt the small number of women and African-Americans inducted has anything to do with discriminating against them. For one thing, while Urban radio and female personalities play a big role in Georgia radio now, it's been that way for probably the past 25 years. If you're counting the posthumous inductees, who are high in number, minorities just were not in radio for the most part like they are now.

I also think the African-American inductees would increase if the GRHOF had more black members, which I'm sure the organization would love to have.

One African-American personality who deserves to be nominated is Mike Roberts, who got incredible ratings doing mornings on V-103 for 13 years.
 
^I have ABSOLUTELY nothing to back this up, but I would assume that blacks have been in Atlanta radio for as long as there's been radio.
 
dmcco01 said:
^I have ABSOLUTELY nothing to back this up, but I would assume that blacks have been in Atlanta radio for as long as there's been radio.
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That's probably true but not in the numbers and positions of influence that they are today.
 
Some of us can remember the mid 60's when 1340/WAKE (Top 40) became WIGO (Urban) and gave 1380/WAOK (Urban) a run for its money. Both had great music and great morning drive jocks: Tommy Goodwin on WIGO and Bob McKee on WAOK.

It was a time when we all got along in a "city too busy to hate". It was a couple of generations ago before we were taught to focus on our differences that made us all "unequal", no matter what. It was a time when "tolerance" was not such a rare thing in Atlanta radio. It was good.

And, it just didn't matter that Tommy Goodwin and Bob McKee were white boys.
 
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