TV One cable network launches Monday [African-American TV]

AJC ^ | 1/17/04 | CAROLINE WILBERT

[4mycountry]

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[Howie66]

Sounds like a RACIST move here......

[Recovering_Democrat]

Can you imagine the hellfire that would rain down upon a network that called itself or marketed itself as a "White American" Network??

[NoGrayZone]

It's only racist if white people do it.

[Howie66]

oh yeah....sorry for my memory lapse.

[Paleoguy]

Multiculturalism and immigration are moving America on a dangerous path towards conflict. One of the critical stablizers in America which used help unify the country was the dominance of "broadcasting" in TV. There were only three stations, and each station tried to produce programming that would capture the widest possible audience.

And just when America's demographics is getting more diverse, TV is breaking up into zillions of stations. Many of these stations are "narrowcasting". They are focusing on one slice of the population as their business strategy.

Since the power of TV in promoting attitudes and values cannot be overstated, the appearance of narrowcasting TV is a dangerous development.

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[cyborg]

No it's not really. They'll get real business sense like BET did and get white partners. I've never met any black person who watched BET who said it was important that BET was 100% black owned. I like BET because it's more variety.

[Malesherbes]

Black exercise? How is that different from the regular kind?

[mhking]

Can you imagine the hellfire that would rain down upon a network that called itself or marketed itself as a "White American" Network??

Oh, get over it - we don't hear the same outcries from people over multiple networks for women, for kids, for Hispanics, for NASCAR lovers, for golfers, for tennis players, for football fans, and toward every other ethnic, interest, and activity group ad infinitum. There is a small segment out there that can be reached with a network formatted in toward them; someone who has the wherewithall and money in hand would be foolish to ignore it.

I've got a unique viewpoint of this one.

I met Al Liggins years ago when his Radio One group looked at buying the station where I was working at the time. He was groomed by his mother, Kathy Hughes to take over the radio stations years ago. Her start came from a single station owned by her late husband Dewey Hughes in Washington, DC, and has expanded into one of the larger "second tier" radio groups in the nation.

The two of them are a formidable pair; not the most likeable people in the world, but I have to respect their collective business accumen.

TV One (like MBC before it) is trying to go after BET's niche, and if they can provide what the mainstream black audience wants (i.e., REAL content - news, sports and other balanced programming - as opposed to music videos ad nauseum day in and day out), they've truly got a chance. The larger problem is that the perception of everyone else in America (read many people here on FR and elsewhere) is that it is "racist" to narrowcast programming in television as is done in radio to great success.

I say that if the dollars are out there, then why not?

Moreover, as opposed to turning up our collective noses, a better tact for us to take is to figure out how to use this new vehicle ourselves. How better to reach mainstream black America than with a medium that black America watches (or listens to for that matter)?

Oh, but I forgot. Some of you think that any attempt to talk to black America on their own turf is pandering, and many others feel that the attempt is worthless because blacks have continued to vote en masse for the Democrats for more than two generations. How silly of me to believe that we can make inroads in an area that has traditionally been "off limits" to us. I don't know what must have gotten into me.

I'll go back to eating my Oreos now.

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[Victoria Delsoul]

I'll go back to eating my Oreos now.

LOL!! Good post Mhking.

[cyborg]

How silly of me to believe that we can make inroads in an area that has traditionally been "off limits" to us. I don't know what must have gotten into me.
*** TV One would have programming white people would sit down and watch. I watch BET whenever I feel like seeing some good videos. That's all they are now constant rap videos and gospel stuff on Sunday(don't mind that).

I'll go back to eating my Oreos now.
*** I like mine double stuff with Klim milk please. Hope you have lots of room in your kitchen because i know a few people who would like to join you.

[shiva]

Wonder if Opra will leave her Uncle Tom white stations to join this gift from heaven network? NOT!

[Howie66]

I'm not going to answer on the part of anyone else, just myself.

My point is really simple: I believe in ONE RACE and only ONE RACE. That is the HUMAN RACE.

Along the same lines, I do not accept that there is any kind of an AMERICAN other than a REAL AMERICAN.

This might seem to be overly simple to some, but for me, that's the way that it is.

Dr. Martin Luther King said: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

I share the dream of Dr. King, not in word, but in deed.

[rdb3]

The saga continues...

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Oh, but I forgot. Some of you think that any attempt to talk to black America on their own turf is pandering, and many others feel that the attempt is worthless because blacks have continued to vote en masse for the Democrats for more than two generations. How silly of me to believe that we can make inroads in an area that has traditionally been "off limits" to us. I don't know what must have gotten into me."

BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!!!!!

[GreenHornet]

There will be an exercise show in the mornings, a talk show with Patti LaBelle, documentaries about well-known blacks and reruns of sitcoms like the 1970s show "Good Times."

"Good Times"? A show where each episode was packed with just about every negative stereotype you can imagine? Black families do not spend their time "doin' the dozens" and dancing around the house all day. They didn't do it in the 1970s, and they don't do it today.

[ErnBatavia]

Your current tagline is a good one, amigo...

[rdb3]

Thanx, and I really mean what I say in it.

[ErnBatavia]

and I really mean what I say in it.

"It's a good thing"...