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First Black News Channel Takes Off in US by Kingspin(op): 12:18am On Feb 12, 2020

The first US national news channel to cater to African-American viewers has launched in Florida.

The Black News Channel (BNC) will cover news "culturally specific to the African American community", said the new cable news network.

The BNC said it planned to target the "image gap" in negative black stereotypes depicted in the media.
Network executives said BNC - which hopes to reach 100 million viewers - would not be politically partisan.

The 24/7 channel - which went to air on Monday - plans to offer original programming "created by people of colour for people of colour", its website says.
The BNC will be run by JC Watts, a black former Republican congressman for Oklahoma and former professional football player, and Bob Brillante, a white TV executive.
Mr Watts has said the network would not be ideologically driven.

John Marks, the former Democratic mayor of Tallahassee, where the network is based, will also be part of the management team.

The top investor in the project is Shahid Khan, the billionaire owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team and Fulham FC of the English Football League.
"We're not looking to be Republican or Democrat," Mr Watts told the Associated Press in October.

"Obviously, there will be current affairs, but we are culturally specific to the African American community.

"MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, they may have African American faces on their news shows, but they are not necessarily covering the community from a cultural perspective."
African-American media has historically played an important role in the struggle for US civil rights and equality.

But like the wider US news media landscape at a time of consolidation, declining ad revenue and the growth of social platforms, it faces challenges.
Printing presses stopped rolling last summer at the 115-year-old Chicago Defender newspaper, which once featured famed 19th Century abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

That closure came in the same month that Ebony magazine, founded in 1972, folded amid bankruptcy struggles.

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Re: First Black News Channel Takes Off in US by Dottore: 12:20am On Feb 12, 2020

Kingspin:
The first US national news channel to cater to African-American viewers has launched in Florida.

The Black News Channel (BNC) will cover news "culturally specific to the African American community", said the new cable news network.

The BNC said it planned to target the "image gap" in negative black stereotypes depicted in the media.

Network executives said BNC - which hopes to reach 100 million viewers - would not be politically partisan.

The 24/7 channel - which went to air on Monday - plans to offer original programming "created by people of colour for people of colour", its website says.

Calls for racial sentiments

Re: First Black News Channel Takes Off in US by Kingspin(op): 12:24am On Feb 12, 2020

Dottore:
Calls for racial sentiments

It never rather the station is long overdue. The timing is perfect.

Let's watch and see what they bring to the world of broadcasting particular for Africans in the US and beyond.

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Re: First Black News Channel Takes Off in US by Dottore: 12:27am On Feb 12, 2020

Kingspin:
The first US national news channel to cater to African-American viewers has launched in Florida.

The Black News Channel (BNC) will cover news "culturally specific to the African American community", said the new cable news network.

The BNC said it planned to target the "image gap" in negative black stereotypes depicted in the media.

Network executives said BNC - which hopes to reach 100 million viewers - would not be politically partisan.

The 24/7 channel - which went to air on Monday - plans to offer original programming "created by people of colour for people of colour", its website says.

Calls for racial sentiments

Re: First Black News Channel Takes Off in US by OneCorner: 3:24am On Feb 12, 2020

If oyinbo open there own and name it White News Chanel, the whole world will start calling dem racist
Toxic set of people, they blame everything on whites,...

Re: First Black News Channel Takes Off in US by OruExpress: 4:16am On Feb 12, 2020

OneCorner:
If oyinbo open there own and name it White News Chanel, the whole world will start calling dem racist
Toxic set of people, they blame everything on whites,...

OneCorner:
I just read the news where massob justified the killings in benue and taraba because they didn't support them 48yr ago. And even the easterners that commented said that the killings are well justified.
So me ayam thinking this people connived with these fulani herdsmen to perpetuate this evil killings. Cuz I can't imagine how a tribe could be these heartless. They claim to be Jew and Christians but I can't weigh the hatred that will make you support the killings of over a hundred people including women and children just because you accused their great grandfather or even great great grand father didn't support your Biafra then.
with the comments on the massob thread, I can boldly say to a very high degree that these over the knife people connived with the fulani herdsmen on the recent killings across Nigeria.

OneCorner:
A man believed to be an ibo man named Amaechi Fred O was arrested yesterday. He's said to be a high ranking BH officer.

My question to the easterners in the house is "why are you joining BH when you have ipob? Or is ipob now working with BH"

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