After more than a decade of planning, the Black News Channel is set to launch in February.
, securing investors and several false starts, the launch of the 24-hour national cable news channel targeting black viewers now is set for Feb. 10.Black News Channel is the brainchild of former Republican U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, who serves as chairman, and veteran television manager Bob Brillante as chief executive officer.
“I believe there is an undeniable calling for everything the Black News Channel will deliver to African-American television audiences, who have historically been underserved,” Khan said in a news release. “My decision to invest is an easy one, because we get to answer that calling. “We are a CNN, Fox News, MSNBC type of organization that will be culturally specific to the African-American community,” Watts said.
“News has grown and changed and a lot of people don’t like the way it’s changed, especially on cable news,” said Wordlaw, who came on board in January 2019 from WVLA-TV/WGMB-TV in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was news director. “Identity politics rules the day. We are not going to take sides.
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