Radio One/Washington, DC, Operations Manager Kashon Powell has been named Vice President of Programming. She is the first woman to hold this position for Urban One. Powell began her radio career in 1992 at KBXX-FM in Houston as Research Assistant and worked up through the ranks to become the first female Program Director for the station. She has also been Urban Editor for Radio & Records in Los Angeles, worked at Clear Channel/Philadelphia (now iHeart) as APD/Music Director and was soon promoted to PD for WUSL-FM and WDAS-FM. Later she served as iHeart’s Director of Urban Programming for Virginia. In 2015, Powell joined Radio One in DC, as PD of MAJIC 102.3 and 92.7 and two years later was promoted to Operations Manager of the cluster.
CEO of Radio One, David Kantor said, “I’m delighted to have Kashon in this position. Not only has she proved to be an outstanding programmer with the huge success of our Washington cluster but it will be great to have the voice of a woman, our primary demographic, among our senior programmers. I know Kashon’s contributions to the company will be enormous.”
