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Article: A Quiet Storm of Applause; Homegrown Radio One Gets a Starry Salute On Its 25th Anniversary
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- The Washington Post
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- August 18, 2006
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You stay in business, particularly the radio business, for 25
years, and you make quite a few friends. Radio One, the homegrown
D.C. broadcast giant, has done that -- and about a thousand of its
friends showed up last night to mark the occasion.
This was not your usual silver-anniversary shindig, however.
Radio One's friends included enough boldface names -- from music,
politics, business and (naturally) the radio industry -- to draw
sweating packs of paparazzi to the J.W. Marriott Hotel downtown. And
during dog-days August, too, when this glam crowd is usually in the
Hamptons, or Biarritz, or wherever the more fortunately famous go
when the humidity can steam the starch out of your ...