If you had a ground floor opportunity to redo BET from scratch, what would you do? Guess what?
Every once in a while an opportunity comes around where there are only a few people who know what's up and they're not well enough connected to take advantage of something right in front of their face. I perceive this to be the case right now in minority radio.
If I were to get the opportunity to have a radio program, it would be called The Vector and it would be very much like Cobb in many respects. I would direct it to the internal Third World and point the way to the Second. To me, the best of the Second World would be well represented by the man who owns a small, multimillion dollar business. It's where I'm trying to go. In some respects, I'm not perfectly qualified to host such a show, but in other ways I'm the perfect man for the job. But that's not the point of this post, rather it is to draw attention to what's going on at Sirius & XM with regard to what appears to be a minority set-aside for satellite radio spectrum.
A cat I met last month, Malik Shakur is in the thick of following the FCC machinations and has an application in process for some of this spectrum. He's determined and his website is getting little traffic. I notice these things and I hope that to the extent people notice me, I can direct some attention his way. It's very difficult to be a one man crusade, especially when there are so many people who very desperately want to achieve the same goal. We're just not all networked.
So as I said, I'm going to get folks I know, whom I have confidence would be excellent in the radio business to get aware of Malik's efforts. Something important can happen here.
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