[2] In 1970, after the Jamaican government declared the gambling games illegal, Joseph and Ernest decided to turn to the music business and launched a sound-system named Channel One.
[3] In 1972, impressed by the rootsy style of producer Bunny Lee, Joseph decided to set up the Channel One Studios on Maxfield Avenue (West Kingston).
[citation needed] Though they produced some strong records (Don't Give Up the Fight by Stranger & Gladdy — their first production, I Dig You, Baby by Alton Ellis, and Leroy Smart's Blackman), they did not meet with success until the mid-1970s.
[3] Channel One's biggest commercial success, "Right Time", by The Mighty Diamonds, was released in 1975,[3] and included on the group's 1976's Hoo Kim-produced album of the same name.
[2] However, many other big names came to record in the studio: Leroy Smart, Delroy Wilson, Black Uhuru, Horace Andy, John Holt, Junior Byles, The Wailing Souls, and Dillinger, were a few of them.
[3] When the dancehall entered the digital era, he withdrew from the Jamaican music business, shut down both studios and settled in New York permanently.