Barrett Media produces over 20 stories per day on the music, news, and sports media industries. Stay updated on the latest happenings by signing up to receive our newsletters straight to your inbox.
Longtime SiriusXM host Joe Madison, affectionately known as The Black Eagle, died earlier this year at the age of 74. He’ll now be enshrined forever in his hometown after a street was named in his honor.
Joe Madison Way is now the name of a street in Dayton after the city renamed the thoroughfare after the longtime host and human rights activist. It was formerly known as Cowart Street.
Madison died in February after taking a leave of absence from his SiriusXM Urban View show in December due to a cancer diagnosis.
The Black Eagle began his radio career in Detroit in 1980 at WXYZ. His career then took him to WWDB in Philadelphia, WWRC and WOL in Washington, DC, eventually earning syndication on the Radio One Talk Network and its XM satellite channel which later merged with Sirius to become SiriusXM in 2008. Madison celebrated 15 years with the satellite radio company in 2023.
Joe Madison — who was enshrined in the Radio Hall of Fame in 2019 — was the youngest president of any NAACP Chapter when he rose to the role in Detroit.
