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Bobby Clarke

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Chief executive of the Queens-based Irie Jam Media Group and founder of Irie Jam Radio, which he launched in the early 1990s to fill the gap left when Inner City Broadcasting dropped Caribbean programming from WLIB-AM. He brokered Caribbean airtime on WVIP 93.5 FM for more than thirty years, until the station's 2023 sale ended it, and received Jamaican national honours in 2017.

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Caribbean Life; Jamaica Gleaner (3 September 2023); South Florida Caribbean News.

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For fifty years the surest way to hear Jamaican music was not to turn on a Jamaican radio. This is how that changed — and what it cost the people who changed it.

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