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she is cathy hughes.merican first series tonight. >> our responsibility is dictated and mandated by the federal communications commission is to serve the public interest. >> cathy hughes is living the dream, one she had since growing up in omaha, nebraska. >> i knew it when my mother bought me the transistor radio. i knew it with the toothbrush that was my microphone. when god puts something on you, in the clergy they call it a calling. >> a calling that inspired her to work her way through the hard scrabble, male dominated radio business. her first gig was at a nebraska radio station. but a job offer as a lecturer in howard university's communications department would help shape her destiny. by moving her to washington, d.c. hughes had even bigger plans. >> i didn't want to be on the other side of the radio running things. i wanted to be on that microphone and i wanted to be the first black woman with a nationally syndicated radio show. >> in 1973, hughes became sales director of the university's struggl

she is cathy hughes.nter of our up from a past african-american first series tonight. >> our responsibility is dictated and mandated by the federal communications commission is to serve the public interest. >> reporter: cathy hughes is living the dream. one she had since growing up in omaha, nebraska. >> i knew it when my mother bought me the transistor radio. i knew it with the toothbrush that was my microphone. when god puts something on you, i mean, probably in the clergy they call it a calling. >> reporter: a calling that inspired her to work her way through the hardscrabble, male-dominated radio business. her first gig was at a nebraska radio station. but a job offer as a lecturer in howard university's communications department would help shape her destiny. by moving her to washington, d.c. hughes had even bigger plans. >> i didn't want to be on the other side of the radio running things. i wanted to be on that microphone and i wanted to be the first black woman with a nationally syndicated radio sh