EXHIBIT 3.22

                                STATE OF DELAWARE
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                        OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

      I, EDWARD J. FREEL, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY THE ATTACHED IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE OF
INCORPORATION OF "RADIO ONE OF BOSTON, INC.", FILED IN THIS OFFICE ON THE
SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH, A.D. 2000, AT 9 O'CLOCK A.M.

      A FILED COPY OF THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE NEW CASTLE
COUNTY RECORDER OF DEEDS.

                              [SEAL]   /s/ Edward J. Freel
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                                       Edward J. Freel, Secretary of State
3195762  8100
                                       AUTHENTICATION: 0322172
001135831                                        DATE: 03-17-00



                                                           STATE OF DELAWARE
                                                           SECRETARY OF STATE
                                                        DIVISION Of CORPORATIONS
                                                       FILED 09:00 AM 03/17/2000
                                                           001135831 - 3195762

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                            RADIO ONE OF BOSTON, INC.

      The undersigned natural person of the age of eighteen years or more for
the purpose of organizing a corporation for conducting the business and
promoting the purposes hereinafter stated, under the provisions and subject to
the requirements of the laws of the State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1,
Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental
thereto, and known, identified, and referred to as the "General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware"), hereby certifies that:

                                 ARTICLE FIRST:

      The name of the corporation is Radio One of Boston, Inc. (hereinafter the
"Corporation").

                                 ARTICLE SECOND:

      The address of the Corporation's registered office in the State of
Delaware is 1013 Centre Road, Wilmington, Delaware, 19805, in the City of
Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the registered agent at such
address is the Corporation Service Company.

                                 ARTICLE THIRD:

      The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is to
engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized
under the General Corporation Law of the Stale of Delaware.

                                 ARTICLE FOURTH:

      The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation has the
authority to issue is one thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock, with a par
value of $0.01 per share.

                                 ARTICLE FIFTH:

      The name and address of the sole incorporator is as follows:

      NAME:                          ADDRESS:

      Donna McClurkin-Fletcher       c/o Kirkland & Ellis
                                     655 fifteenth Street, NW
                                     Washington, DC 20005




                                 ARTICLE SIXTH:

      The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

                                ARTICLE SEVENTH:

      In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute,
the board of directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to make, alter
or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation.

                                 ARTICLE EIGHTH:

      Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of
Delaware, as the By-Laws of the Corporation may provide. The books of the
Corporation my be kept outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as
may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in the By-Laws
of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless
the By-Laws of the Corporation so provide.

                                 ARTICLE NINTH:

      To the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, a director of
this Corporation shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for
monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as director. Any repeal or
modification of this ARTICLE NINTH shall not adversely affect any right or
protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal
or modification.

                                 ARTICLE TENTH:

      The Corporation expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

                                ARTICLE ELEVENTH:

      The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any
provision contained in this certificate of incorporation in the manner now or
hereafter prescribed herein and by the laws of the State of Delaware, and all
rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this
reservation.



      I,the undersigned, being the sole incorporator hereinbefore named, for the
purpose of forming a corporation in pursuance of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware,do make and file this certificate, hereby declaring and
certifying that the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunder
set my hand this 17th day of March, 2000.

                                     /s/ Donna McClurkin-Fletcher
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                                     Donna McClurkin-Fletcher, Sole Incorporator