{"id":5611,"date":"2014-11-09T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:11:49","slug":"media-mogul-doug-banks-builds-on-his-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/09\/media-mogul-doug-banks-builds-on-his-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Media mogul Doug Banks builds on his brand"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Doug<\/a>

<\/a> Doug Banks<\/p><\/div>\n

Urban radio superstar Doug Banks is more than Chicago\u2019s top-rated afternoon personality<\/a> and a veteran TV host. Now he\u2019s a media mogul, too.<\/p>\n

Through his Doug Banks Media Group, he\u2019s about to produce and distribute a nationally syndicated motivational radio show, hosted by Donald Lawrence, the Grammy Award-winning producer and recording artist from Chicago.<\/p>\n

Calling Lawrence \u201ca very talented and well-respected gospel music industry icon,\u201d Banks said he expects \u201cMusic Therapy with Donald Lawrence\u201d to air on iHeartMedia inspirational WGRB AM 1390<\/a>\u00a0here and stations across the country, staring in January.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first offering from the Dallas-based company Banks formed in 2013 to build on his personal brand and develop new talent and content for radio, satellite, digital, television and live events. He continues to host his own syndicated afternoon show for American Urban Radio Networks, which airs on iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/a>

Donald Lawrence<\/p><\/div>\n

Lawrence, who began his career as a music director for R&B legend Stephanie Mills and vocal coach for En Vogue, launched a solo career as a gospel singer in 2004. As a producer, he has collaborated with R&B artists Faith Evans, Mary J. Blige, Lalah Hathaway, Kelly Price and SWV\u2019s Coko, and produced gospel hits for Hezekiah Walker and The Clark Sisters (whose album \u201cLive . . . One Last Time\u201d won three Grammy Awards in 2008).<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic Therapy with Donald Lawrence\u201d will feature a mix of inspirational music along with audience call-ins, motivational messages and \u201cdaily words of wisdom to help listeners live their best life,\u201d according to Lawrence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty excited about it,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve always been committed to using music as therapy to inspire and encourage as well as to entertain, and that\u2019s what Doug Banks Media recruited me to do with this show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urban radio superstar Doug Banks is more than Chicago\u2019s top-rated afternoon personality and a veteran TV host. Now he\u2019s a media mogul, too. Through his Doug Banks Media Group, he\u2019s about to produce and distribute a nationally syndicated motivational radio show, hosted by Donald Lawrence, the Grammy Award-winning producer and recording artist from Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}