Listed Black-owned company · Black-owned
Urban One, Inc.
Founded by Cathy Hughes; the largest Black-owned broadcaster, listed in its own right
Stock value
- Share price
- UnavailableUONE · NASDAQ · Yahoo Finance
- Revenue · fiscal YTD
- Not filed
- Net income · fiscal YTD
- Not filed
- Latest annual revenue
- Not filed
- Latest annual net income
- Not filed
- Enterprise value
- Not filed
Company profile
- Black ownership
- Not disclosedListed company; the Hughes family holds super-voting Class B and C shares and control, but no single Black-ownership percentage is filed · Urban One proxy statement
- Active ventures
- Urban radio broadcasting, Reach Media syndication, TV One, Cleo TV, iOne DigitalUrban One segment reporting
Culture profile · Music + Audio
Black music sets the global rhythm of popular culture, and the catalogues, publishing rights and touring built on it are increasingly held as long term assets rather than one off paydays.
- Market scale
- $17.7BRIAA 2024 · US recorded music, retail value · United States · source
- Listening time to radio
- 75%+Share of Black audio listening time spent with radio, much of it independently owned. · NABOB / Nielsen 2025
- Black buying power share
- 9% of nationalBlack share of US buying power at the $1.6T estimate. · Nielsen, Diverse Voices 2020
- Copyright Royalty Board mechanical rates
- Rate reset litigatedStreaming mechanical royalty rates renegotiated, directly changing songwriter payouts. · Copyright Royalty Board 2022–2023
- Music Modernization Act
- Implementation continuingMechanical Licensing Collective distribution of unmatched royalties still being worked through. · US Copyright Office 2018–ongoing
- Artist master ownership
- Buy-backs normalisingCatalogue and master repurchase by artists, exemplified by the Death Row transaction. · Blackstone / industry reporting 2022