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Jacquie
Gales Webb
has hosted the number one Sunday Afternoon Gospel Music
Program in Washington, DC since 1990 on 96.3 WHUR. She
is also a freelance arts reporter for WAMU in Washington, DC
and the national arts program "Studio 360" at WNYC,
New York. She has also written and produced radio documentary
segments for NPR and the Library of Congress.. She created and produced programming for
six years at W*USA-TV Channel 9 in Washington D.C. Her career
in the nation's capitol began as a radio on-air personality
and eventually manager of music and programming at
Washington's first 24-hour Gospel radio station, WYCB-AM. Her
Bachelor of Science in Speech, cum laude is from Emerson
College in Boston, Massachusetts.
For
Jacquie, Gospel music and Gospel radio has always been a
personal blessing. Her prayer is that her work on the radio is
a blessing to all who listen. Through serving her listeners
she strives to serve the Lord.
Mrs.
Webb was the executive producer of the award-winning public
radio series "Remembering Slavery" which featured
performances by Tonea Stewart, Debbie Allen, Clifton Davis,
Louis Gossett, Jr., Esther Rolle, and James Earl Jones. The
series was carried over 198 radio stations through the Public
Radio International network, and was featured in the January
12, 1999 edition of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also was
the host and producer of the award-winning television
broadcast “Melodies from Heaven” which explored African
American Gospel Radio in Washington, DC and aired on public
television. In 2001 she executive produced a 13-hour radio
documentary for the Smithsonian and Public Radio International
on "Jazz Singers", hosted by Al Jarreau.
Another
Jacquie Gales Webb production was the thirteen-part radio
series "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" hosted
by four-time Grammy Award winner Lou Rawls. The series ranked
among the world's leading radio productions as recipient of a
Peabody Award from the University of Georgia and an Alfred I.
duPont Silver Baton from Columbia University. Webb is also the
winner of 6 local EMMY awards for public affairs programming,
and the recipient of 14 local EMMY nominations and many other
awards for her work in video production.
Jacquie
was born in New York City and raised by Christian instruction
in Westbury, Long Island. In 1977 she received a Bachelor of
Science in Speech degree, cum laude from Emerson College in
Boston, Massachusetts. Her husband was the late media
executive Clif Webb, a former Washington, D.C. news anchor who
was president of Clif Webb Communications media strategy firm.
Their union produced two daughters, Diana and Joanna.
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