RadioShack Plugs Into Nick Cannon as Chief Creative Officer (Really)

It was a household name for decades. An electronics store that had everything except relevance. That’s why the one-time widget juggernaut filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy early this year.

While more than 60 percent of its brick-and-mortar locations are boarded up, the financial protection still protected 1,743 stores and 7,500 jobs.

(FULL DISCLOSURE: RadioShack HQ is in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, so yeehaw about saving the jobs.)

The brand may have been forgotten but yesterday evening, it proved that it was not gone because they hired Nick Cannon as chief creative officer. Yes,