Radio One's President/CEO Alfred Liggins earns "B and C" Hall Award

Story by Inside Radio

Radio One President & CEO Alfred Liggins was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Tuesday night and he used the occasion to salute his mother, Radio One Founder Cathy Hughes. “She would say ‘praise to God for whom all blessings flow,’” Liggins said. “I am thankful I flowed from her, that I won the ovarian lottery....I have been her copilot in her entrepreneurial journey.”

Hughes herself was inducted into the Hall 10 years earlier, and last night’s induction means Liggins and Hughes are the Hall’s first-ever mother-son honorees.

Liggins also had kind words for former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons: “Thank you for telling Time Warner Cable Management why TV One is important and why they had to carry it,” he said in his acceptance of the Hall honor.

Liggins, of course, couldn’t leave the awards show stage without getting in a plug. “I will end with a sales pitch,” he said. “When 50% of the population will be black or brown, a brand’s survival depends on it connecting with these audiences.”

The B&C Hall of Fame was launched in 1991 and honors pioneers in broadcasting and cable.