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Pierre (Pepe) Sutton, at 28, is the youngest president of a broadcasting company in the country. As head of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, Pepe Sutton directs the corporate activities of radio stations WLIB-AM and WBLS-FM in the most important Black market in the U.S.
  
A native New Yorker, Pepe Sutton heads the "mini-U.N." team of talented staffers bringing the Inner City Sound to millions of urbanites. He learned the communications business as managing editor of the New York Courier and later as Public Service Director of WLIB-AM.
  
Because he believes in community involvement for himself as well as the two radio stations, Pepe Sutton serves as chairman of the Harlem District Boy Scouts; is an active member of the Mayor's Special Task Force on Rape, the Martin Luther King Democratic Club, the NAACP and the New York Urban League. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Amsterdam News.
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[[caption]] PIERRE (Pepe) SUTTON, PRESIDENT [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] HAL JACKSON, VICE PRESIDENT [[/caption]]

Hal Jackson, vice president and program manager for Inner City Broadcasting and veteran radio and television air personality, brings more than 25 years of experience in the communications field to Inner City. Often called the "Dean of Black Broadcasters," Jackson holds a record of "firsts": the first Black play-by-play sportscaster on the air; the first Black to host an interracial network television show (NBC's Frontiers in Faith); the first Black to produce a prime time network program for television. He also broke the color barrier at ABC Radio Network with a nightly jazz show. Hal knows everybody in the business and he is working to make sure everybody learns about Inner City. 

WLIB and WBLS's general manager, Dorothy Brunson, is a pioneer in Business Management, Advertising, Public Relations and Black Economic Development and it has earned her a place in the country's fastest growing Black radio corporation. She is, we believe, the only Black woman general manager in radio these days. Good for us—bad for the others. If it sounds like a lot of ground to cover for a young Black woman, it is.
  
Dorothy Brunson founded the Afro American Association of Advertisers and earned a place in Who's Who in Advertising.
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[[caption]] DOROTHY BRUNSON, GENERAL MANAGER [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] DAVID LAMPEL, NEWS DIRECTOR [[/caption]]

David Lampel, a native New Yorker, is at 22, the youngest news director of a major market radio station in the nation. Formerly news director for Black Audio Network news service, Lampel came to WLIB in 1969 as a news writer. Of his news philosophy, Lampel says, "We try to negate all that which is traditional in news and present a product which is dynamic in scope, indepth in nature and Black in concept."

Ken Williams, Thirty year old Jamaican born's "The Caribbean Affair" is regarded by most as "the biggest thing outside of the Caribbean." On WLIB, Saturdays from 6 a.m. to noon, Williams keep the Caribbean culture alive by discussing topics and news items from the islands, "dealing with matters affecting the Caribbean community in the metropolitan area," and playing reggae music. Here, only four years, Williams was a newsman for WNYC radio's "Focus on the Community" and hosted a half hour Caribbean program on WNJR in Union, New Jersey before coming to 12B.

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[[caption]] KEN WILLIAMS, NEWSCASTER [[/caption]]

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