"Thomas "Tom" Joyner" is an United States/American radio host, host of the nationally syndicated The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and also founder of REACH Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb.com.

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But the station also made several other changes around that time, including its music mix, so it was a combination of factors.

It's just unbelievable that a talent so young and so promising is gone.

It's a great thing. Back in the day it was the youth that marched for the vote. I represent the old school, and [this march] takes it back to the old school.

I was working for a competing radio station in Chicago when he asked me what I wanted to do in radio. My response was I wanted to get out. I had my eye on television. And he told me if I would come work for him and make his morning show No. 11, he would give me a shot at television. We kept our promises to each other. After our ratings went to No. 1, he gave me the Ebony/Jet Showcase.