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Producing Success

In the late 1960s, a colleague approached Don Jackson who was then an advertising sales manager for WVON, Chicago’s No. 1 black-oriented radio station, inviting him to work on the development of a new television show. The concept was an African American dance show and the creator was an aspiring disc jockey named Don Cornelius. After evaluating the concept, Jackson said: “Man, there is no way in hell a show called Soul Train will ever make it. Thank you, but no thank you.”

With Bankruptcy Filing, An End of An Era at Johnson Publishing

With Bankruptcy Filing, An End of An Era at Johnson Publishing

After years of trying to remake the former BE 100s company that launched such brands as Ebony and Jet magazines, Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Co. files for bankruptcy, succumbing to financial challenges and failure to find new funding sources.

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