DENDude 152 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 (edited) I Saw on FTVLive this morning FTVLive BNC that some dude named J.C. Watts Jr. & his business partner Bob Brillante are starting the "Black News Channel" to be targeted at young African Americans, and it is to launch this fall on Dish Network, Comcast & Charter. I wonder if this will get off the ground or not? something tells me this is going to fail, but then again if NewsNet can do it why can't these folks. They have been planning for this since May 2017. Their website say the headquarters & master control are going to be located in Tallahassee, FL, with bureaus in Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York City, L.A., Chicago & New Orleans. Any one else think this logo kind of looks like Master Card's logo? www.blacknewschannel.com Edited April 26, 2019 by DENDude 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 127 Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 I expect this to be if "The Root" had a TV station. Better than CNN, MSNBC but with the same biased, malicious slant as the two. Fox News you know who you are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 478 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Launch date is 11/15 https://blacknewschannel.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1749 Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 It's been delayed until January 6th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1749 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 On 11/9/2019 at 10:05 AM, CircleSeven said: It's been delayed until January 6th. Happy New Year! Now its been pushed back again to February 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4718 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) On 1/1/2020 at 12:35 PM, CircleSeven said: Happy New Year! Now its been pushed back again to February 10. Honestly folks, This should have happened 30 years ago. Now it should be interesting to see what slant the new channel takes in the re-election year. Edited January 4, 2020 by Eat News Twice-Feel Special MV .. https://youtu.be/3ymwOvzhwHs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 2696 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Eat News said: Honestly folks, This should have happened 30 years ago. Now it should be interesting to see what slant the new channel takes in the re-election year. Most African-American media tends to lean left, especially when it's targeting millennials. BNC will be no different. Edited January 4, 2020 by Georgie56 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVPromoPro 10 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Looks like they are on the air! https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/2/12/its-a-go-for-bnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVPromoPro 10 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 More images on BNC today in TvNewscheck. https://marketshare.tvnewscheck.com/2020/02/13/black-news-channel-debuts-with-devlin-design-set/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1064 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Logo is still atrocious but it's certainly nice studio space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DENDude 152 Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 There website still just has pictures of the studio, no news articles or bios or anything. Unless they have a website i don't know about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4718 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 (edited) Meet the owner of BNC... J.C.Watts https://thegrio.com/2020/02/11/former-republican-congressman-j-c-watts-launches-black-news-channel/ Edited February 16, 2020 by Eat News tofubeats / トーフビーツ -「POSITIVE feat. Dream Ami」 https://youtu.be/LotK800AgNw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin 118 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 The just re-did the website to better fit the logo. And now it's a news page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DENDude 152 Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 BNC launched this morning 8/31/20 at 9AM Eastern time on DirecTV. It's on DirecTV channel #342. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patlovestv 12 Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 BNC also has new distribution via Pluto TV; I believe its content can also be found via The Roku Channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin 118 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 BNC now on AT&T U-Verse!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 846 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Bumped-- BNC will fold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyWatch 209 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 For those who enjoy context and sources, here's an article on the expected shutdown from the LA Times 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin M. 95 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 (edited) It sad it’s truly a shame black peoples need their own TV networks just like how Hispanics have Univision and Telemundo and in English some younger Latino programming. This isn’t about racial segregation it wasn’t that it is about that blacks have no voice in America. White and Hispanic media don’t cover us well, and we need our views amplified like the former show on BNC. We need our own network owned by black also I firmly believe blacks should own their media, not a white person running it like at BET, which lost its spark a long time ago. Edited March 25, 2022 by Gavin M. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 1523 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 On a basic level, cable/sat providers haven't really reorganized their channel lineups since the early 2010s (I'm still waiting for my Charter lineup to be re-organized as it is on Time Warner where 1000's are HD and 2000's are niche/ethnic channels), so BNC did get carriage...but it was so far away from the actual news channels that nobody was going to discover it in-between randomly-assigned networks added since that re-organization took place like ShopHQ Health, Discovery Life, the Olympic channel and Pac12 Arizona. It wasn't going to work because they took just plain carriage over demands to be right in the news tier. To be fair, Newsmax is in the same channel tier situation, but is also carried on anything with an electrical plug and a video player so they're in a much better state. The other problem was it was just better as a streaming service to begin with. They should have done that first, rather than as a recreational sideline where you got their lesser content. Except for wasting money on satellite space, it was utterly pointless to start as a cable channel in 2020, and launching one month before the pandemic absolutely undid any publicity that would have helped them succeed. 1 hour ago, Gavin M. said: We need our own network owned by black also I firmly believe blacks should own their media, not a white person running it like at BET, which lost its spark a long time ago. Or lowest common denominator stuff like Byron Allen. There is Aspire and Revolt, but they've long retreated to their own niches (archive shows and videos, respectively) with little news content, and TV One has fallen into Viacom Useless Network Syndrome with marathons of old sitcoms; they have an entire radio group with simulcast-ready content to draw from, and just chose that direction because it's what works in the cable world now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 2696 Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsjunkie24 424 Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Kind of nice to see it return. I'm not sure about BNC Go as I haven't checked it out yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 2696 Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Byron Allen wants to buy BNC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briella 160 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Sold to Byron Allen for 11 mil. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 1523 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 And it has closed. If it doesn't move to TWC's Interstate Parkway building in Atlanta, I would be awfully shocked, because it was a channel that should have been in Atlanta in the first place. Now ES can start to distribute news on their own rather that depend on the networks, and AMG will likely launch their own wire and down the line, can have a national hub. Yes, it's Black News Channel first, but this definitely wasn't a purchase made to only keep things as-is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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