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It was into this milieu that Tom Joyner was born in Tuskegee, Ala., in 1949. A pudgy, unathletic kid, Joyner tried his hand at performing with boyhood friend Lionel Richie. Since Joyner could not sing, and since his dancing resembled self-taught karate, it was politely suggested that he remain in Tuskegee and finish his college degree. He turned to radio almost as an afterthought, when a white-owned station was pressured to provide more black programming. However accidental, Joyner's timing couldn't have been more ideal. In 1953, William Barlow notes, only about 250 stations in the country offered "black appeal" programming; a decade later, when Joyner was beginning to consider his career prospects, there were more than 800.
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Popular urban radio host, Tom Joyner is getting together with David Kantor, former president of ABC Radio Networks, to launch Reach Media. The company will develop African American focused syndicated programming. Along with current Joyner programming on 100 ABC radio network stations, Reach Media will ... develop programming for television. movies and the Internet.
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Tom Joyner grew up in the town of Tuskegee, Alabama. He is one of two sons. His mother was a secretary for the military and his father served as a Tuskegee Airman. His beginnings were very much like many young blacks in the south. During the Montgomery Boycott, there was the "Tuskegee Boycott". Tom and many others fought for their civil rights. They took their protests to the streets weekly to try and effect change.
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Tom Joyner graduated from Tuskegee Institute in his hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and immediately started his career in radio. He started at WRMA (an AM station in Montgomery, Alabama). After breaking onto the airwaves there, he worked his magic at WLOK (an AM station in Memphis, Tennessee), KWK (an AM station in St. Louis, Missouri), and KKDA (an FM station in Dallas, Texas).
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Tom Joyner has always been recognized as a man on the move. He first came to public attention by hosting a morning radio show in Dallas and an afternoon show in Chicago simultaneously for eight years, flying back-and-forth between jobs daily. In the 1990s his popularity soared as the host of a nationally syndicated morning radio program. As nationally syndicated radio programs became a hot trend in the 1990s, Joyner became the biggest star in black radio.
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Tom Joyner was born in Tuskegee, Alabama and received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the Tuskegee Institute. Upon graduating, Joyner took a job reading news on WRMA/Montgomery. Subsequent jobs at WLOK/Memphis, KWK/St. Louis and KKDA/Dallas followed.
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