Clive Hudson, a stalwart of West Indian radio in the United States, died in New York May 24, at age 73. The cause of death was complications of a stroke, said his sister, Paulette Hudson.
Hudson, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, migrated to the US in 1968. He made his name as a broadcaster at WNWK, a leading West Indian radio station in the tri-state (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) area.
He worked there for 20 years. During that period, his colleagues included other heavyweight broadcasters like Gil Bailey, Clinton Lindsay and Earl “Rootsman” Chin.
In 2012, he launched www.clivehudsonreggae.com, an Internet station that played Jamaican music, from mento to roots-reggae and dancehall.
Hudson also kept listeners in the Jamaican Diaspora in tune with the latest developments in the US and back home in Jamaica.
“We keep Jamaicans living abroad current with the music and social development in Jamaica daily from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm. Internet radio is the new wave of communicating,” he declared in a 2016 interview with the Jamaica Observer newspaper. “Traditional radio covered sections of a state. Internet radio covers the universe.”
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