Selma: A March to Remember focuses on the personal accounts of people who were there. Leaders, participants and witnesses recount their experiences, in their own words and talk about the challenges that still persist. It will air on 42 Raycom Media owned or managed stations starting Friday, Feb. 27, and on the African-American diginet Bounce TV on March 4.
Bounce TV Honors Black History Month
Bounce TV will honor Black History Month in February with a month-long programming tribute featuring African-American stories, motion pictures and performances. The tribute will also include a new original short-form […]
Bounce TV Airing Martin Luther King III PSA
The multicast network bolsters its lineup with Roc and The Parent ’Hood from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, A Different World from Carsey-Werner and The Hughleys from Twentieth Television. They will form a new programming block starting Mon., Jan. 5.
Bounce TV viewership continued to climb in the just-completed third-quarter ratings period — which the network ended with posting its most-watched month ever. In primetime viewership for the quarter, Bounce TV delivered 152,000 households, up 45%; 85,000 adults 25-54, up 21%, and 75,000 adults 18-49, up 15%.
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E.W. Scripps-owned Fox affiliate WSYM Lansing, Mich. (DMA 114), is now offering the African-American multicast network Bounce TV on a subchannel. Its addition drives the network past 90% of African […]
E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WMAR Baltimore (DMA 27) is now offering the African-American multicast network Bounce TV on its 2.3 subchannel. “This will present an exciting opportunity for the Baltimore […]
Bounce TV Sponsors 11-City Music Fest
Diginets Building Themselves A Market
The multicast networks that stations are using to populate their subchannels are estimated to generate between $250 million and $350 million a year in total ad revenues, growing 4% to 5% a year. “It’s still early in the game, says Katz TV Media’s Bill Carroll. “They’re in the ‘build-out phase,’ the news being they’ve extended the reach, and enhanced the profile, of broadcast stations. A few are already visible in ratings terms, and others are quickly becoming so.” Here’s a look at the diginet trends and our exclusive ranking of the top 25 by TV household coverage.
Bounce TV Slots Two New Sitcoms For 2015
Sitcoms Mann & Wife and Sisters are both from Roger Bobb who executive produced Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns. The African-American targeted diginet also adds Ri-Karlo Handy as vice president of original programming.
Bounce TV’s newest original series One Love reached nearly 1.1 million persons across its series premiere week runs to become the most-watched original in Bounce TV’s history. According to Bounce […]
The promotion of the network’s central sales director is part of Bounce’s effort to grow its national sales division. The push also includes new hires and the opening of a West Coast sales office.
The multicast network will use every Sunday night in February to offer movies with new, original short-form vignettes from influential African Americans.
Gannett renews the African-American multicast network in Atlanta and Washington, Nexstar renews in nine markets through 2017. In addition, WSYR Syracuse, N.Y.; WFFT Fort Wayne, Ind.; WTVW Evansville, Ind.; and WMDN Meridian, Miss., are set to launch.
Bounce TV will premiere its first original scripted sitcom My Crazy Roommate on Monday, Oct. 14, at 10 p.m. followed at 10:30 by the series debut of BRKDWN, an original […]
Bounce TV will debut on Scripps Media-owned independent KMCI Kansas City (DMA 31) beginning Monday, Oct. 21 at 10:00 a.m. It will air on KMCI’s ch. 38.2 and will also […]
African-American multicast network Bounce TV today expanded its management team. Felicia Hamilton has been named to the newly-created position of SVP of research and Damien West has been hired to […]
The African-American targeted multicast network posts double-digit gains in multiple adult demos, and tops 85 cable networks in black viewership.
The African-American multicast network will air on ch. 5.2 of the Gannett-owned NBC affiliate beginning Aug. 28. The deal raises Bounce TV’s coverage to 89% of African-American households and 71% of The U.S.
Diginets Growing With Old Shows + New Ideas
After years of experimentation, broadcasting specialty networks on subchannels is starting to draw viewers and revenue in amounts that really matter. Some peg the take at more than $200 million. While classic TV shows and movies are popular formats, others see the future in original programming.
News Finds A New Home Among Diginets
Stations started dabbling with inserting newscasts into their diginet subchannels about five years ago and they say they expect the practice to become more pervasive as more stations recognize the revenue and promotional potential. Among the experiments is producing newscasts that air at non-traditional times — 7-9 a.m. or 9 p.m. — when primary channels are airing network programming.
Raycom renews the African-American-targeted network in 26 DMAs, adds network in Knoxville and Panama City; LIN renews four markets, launches in Buffalo, Providence and Grand Rapids; Belo renews in Houston; WVUE renews in New Orleans; WBDT renews in Dayton; WYTV launches in Youngstown
Bounce TV will debut a new original series this fall — newly-created episodes of the popular YouTube show BRKDWN, it was announced today by Billy Hall, Bounce TV EVP, programming […]
Bounce TV has acquired broadcast television rights to The American Bible Challenge and Catch 21 game shows in a new agreement with GSN, it was announced by Bounce TV Chief […]
Bounce TV Unveils First Upfront Programming Slate
The African American-focused diginet Bounce TV today announced its first slate of upfront programming plans, including original new scripted and non-scripted series, series renewals, the return to broadcast television of […]
The African American-focused diginet Bounce TV will premiere its first original non-scripted series, Forever Jones Presented by Walmart on Wednesday, June 5, at 9 p.m. ET. Coming on the heels […]
The African American-focused diginet taps Turner veteran Paul Campbell to run the unit.
The African American-focused diginet Bounce TV will begin production on the network’s first-ever original reality series which will center around the daily lives of the Grammy-nominated family gospel group foreverJONES, […]
The broadcast TV network that offers programming aimed at African-Americans is stepping up advertising sales operations as it attracts a growing roster of blue-chip marketers.
The African American-focused diginet Bounce TV will honor Black History Month in February with Our History, a month-long programming tribute that includes documentaries, specials and a new original short-form series […]
Bounce TV’s Martin Luther King Day Celebration on Monday, Jan. 21, will include live coverage of the 57th Presidential Inauguration as President Barack Obama takes his second oath of office, […]
Univision To Air Bounce TV In 7 Top Markets
The African American-focused diginet will now be carried by Univision stations in San Francisco, Boston, Tampa, Miami, Denver, Sacramento and Raleigh, giving it 68% U.S. coverage and affiliates in 24 of the top 25 markets.
The first original holiday special from the 15-month-old digital broadcast network will have its debut one week before Christmas.
Bounce TV will carry its first boxing telecast when it airs World Boxing Association (WBA) Title matches and undercards on Friday, Nov. 30, live from the BB&T Center near Fort Lauderdale, […]
Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans,, will kick-off its 2012-13 college football coverage of the nation’s largest African American athletic conference, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), […]
African-American broadcast network Bounce TV is one year old this week. It is adding affiliates and advertisers for year two. Also, it is preparing to become a Nielsen-rated network before this year is out.
Bounce TV Adds 3 Fox-Owned Stations
With the addition of Phoenix, Minneapolis and Orlando, the new broadcast network reaches 60% U.S. coverage, including 80% of African-American homes.
Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans, today named veteran television programmer Billy Hall to the newly-created position of EVP, programming and production. In this role, Hall will […]
Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans, will premiere the second season of its original comedy series Uptown Comic this fall with actor and comedian Rodney Perry (Tyler […]
