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Robert "Rob" Redding, Jr. (born January 13, 1976) is an American media proprietor, award-winning radio talk show host, political commentator, independent journalist, a best-selling American author, a best-selling American music artist and songwriter, visual artist and social entrepreneur. Redding is known as the founder and publisher of ''Redding News Review'' and host of a talk radio show and podcast. In 2003, he was among few blacks to be named to Talkers Magazine's "100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" and has received a proclamation for his work by the Atlanta City Council the same year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.radiofacts.com/rob-redding-returns-to-waok-in-atlanta/ )〕 He made history being the only black program director in white-dominated talk radio station in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allaccess.com/news-talk-sports/10-questions/archive/4766/10-questions-with-robert-rob-redding-jr / )〕 His web site Redding News Review has earned three consecutive Black Web Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www2.cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2011/11/08/rob-redding-show-coming-to-wdbz-am/ )〕 He currently runs the web's oldest black news aggregation outlet and first and most successful stand-alone subscriber-based web site and talk show.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/128398/redding-news-review-moves-to-subscription-model )〕 ==Background== Redding is the son of Rev. Robert Redding Sr., an Atlanta pastor and former president of the Fayette County's Black Voters League, and the late Mary Ann Redding, who was an Atlanta public school teacher and a Fayette school board candidate. He began his media career as a hip-hop radio personality at KZWA-FM, while at McNeese State University in Lake Charles in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://reddingnewsreview.com/robertreddingsite/biography.html )〕 In 1996, he accepted a full-time position as a hip-hop night personality at WIBB-FM in Macon, GA, where he was named "Tony Smoove" by his program director. Macon was also the home of another Redding family member, '60s soul singer Otis Redding.〔 He left hip-hop for talk radio and journalism, working at a series of newspapers: ''The Prince George's Sentinel'', ''The Prince George's Gazette'', ''The Prince George's Journal'', ''The Macon Telegraph'', and finally ''The Washington Times''. During that same time he began his talk radio career filling in for Bernie McCain on Radio-One's WOL in Washington, D.C. in 1999. In 2001, he landed his first full-time job in talk radio doing afternoons at CBS Radio's WAOK-AM, where he started ReddingNewsReview.com. He left the station in 2003 and began syndicating his talk radio show while filling in for Ambrose I. Lane Sr. on SiriusXM 128 The Power.〔 He later inked his own weekend syndication deals with GCN and Sirius XM in 2008, while finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. On August 30, 2010, he began doing a weekday show for GCN, while still doing the Sunday show. The weekday show aired in multiple markets and at one time on Sirius XM daily from April 2012 to February 2013. The Sirius XM deal ended after nearly half a decade and more than 420 episodes on Feb. 10, 2013. Redding moved to Brussels Belgium in 2013. Living in Brussels communities of Saint-Gilles, Belgium and then Schaerbeek, he became first to broadcast his afternoon talk show via GCN to American audiences nightly from Europe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/121530/redding-news-review-now-airing-from-brussels )〕 Redding made talk history when he made his program the first ever and most successful stand-alone spoken word program available exclusively to subscribers on his subscriber-supported Web site, at the conclusion of the GCN deal on April 1, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/128398/redding-news-review-moves-to-subscription-model )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rob Redding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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