{"id":17364,"date":"2012-10-11T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17364"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:49:30","slug":"radio-pioneer-wayne-brown-loses-battle-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17364","title":{"rendered":"Radio Pioneer Wayne Brown Loses Battle To Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GA &#8211; <strong>Wayne K. Brown,<\/strong> one of the most influential African-Americans in the radio business, lost his battle with liver cancer.<\/p>\n<p>With more than three decades of experience across broadcasting and marketing, <strong>Brown<\/strong>, 55, was considered a true industry pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Wayne<\/strong> was a wonderful human being,\u201d said <strong>Ms. Catherine L. Hughes,<\/strong> Chairperson &amp; Founder of Radio One, Inc., \u201che made you feel like you were the most important person in the world when you were with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown<\/strong> who was the VP\/GM of Radio One\u2019s Atlanta market for eight years, was most recently the general manager of Atlanta\u2019s Streetz 94.5 FM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown<\/strong> also served as senior partner and associate publisher of Who\u2019s Who publishing company. Prior to Radio One he spent 13 years at CBS Headquarters in New York City working for network TV &amp; radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GA &#8211; Wayne K. Brown, one of the most influential African-Americans in the radio business, lost his battle with liver cancer. With more than three decades of experience across broadcasting and marketing, Brown, 55, was considered a true industry pioneer. \u201cWayne was a wonderful human being,\u201d said Ms. Catherine L. Hughes, Chairperson &amp; Founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}