Holloway ’76 named to Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame

The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Emerson Trustee Doug Holloway ’76, president and founder of Homewood Media, was recently named to the 32nd Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame. The induction will take place on September 26, 2024, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York. A portion of the net proceeds from the Hall of Fame gala will be donated to The Broadcaster Foundation of America. Holloway was previously inducted into the 26th Annual Cable Hall of Fame by the The Cable Center in April 2023. In 2021, Holloway developed and launched two multicultural family channels by and for people of color: UKW Media and Urbn-TV. Holloway, cable television and broadcast veteran and former president of multi-channel distribution at ION media networks, NBC Universal and, one of the founders of the SyFy Channel. The Pittsburgh native and co-producer of the award-winning album Theolonious Monk/Palo Alto, envisioned the creation of an all-multicultural channel for eight years. Now, he and Judy Kim, co-founder and COO of UKW Media, have made this vision a reality. The launch of UKW Media and Urbn-TV comes to bridge the gap of diversity in entertainment. “We understand the power of images in the media. We want kids to...