What are parents to do when they want their kids to watch black programming, but really don’t want it to be College Hill? Well, TV One’s our only alternative to BET now that the Black Family Channel is going off the air. Considering the amount of publicity it got, the channel had a good run. I wasn’t expecting it to last eight years. EURweb has the story.
The 16 million-subscriber network — co-owned by lawyer Willie Gary, former baseball star Cecil Fielder, entertainer Marlon Jackson, cable veteran Alvin James and former heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield – had trouble securing significant cable and satellite distribution to remain in business, sources tell the Web site.
The network’s last broadcast will be April 30, and then the Black Family Channel will go the way of, well, the traditional black family in America — down the drain. Sucks to see a black business die, but I can’t lie. I never actually watched it. Did you?
[EURweb]
I only just got cable again about a week ago, so I didn’t watch it, but nobody I know with cable watched it either…too bad it didn’t last longer. You’d think Willie Gary would have been able to make it work.
Truth be told, I’ve never heard of this channel in my entire life. What type of shows aired on it? Did it have any original series?
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