Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans, has acquired the television rights to four packages of African American-skewing motion pictures in individual, multi-year licensing agreements with Walt Disney […]
Diginets Delivering Dollars For More Stations
While multicasting is still in its infancy, a growing number of the D2 and D3 channels have turned into new revenue streams, accounting for about 3% of station ad money, according to BIA/Kelsey. The biggest earners are broadcast networks that don’t have a full-power home, but multicast-only nets like This TV, Live Well, Antenna TV, Bounce TV and Me-TV are creating their own growing niches as well.
The addition of the Scripps ABC affiliate brings U.S. coverage of the African-American targeted diginet to 55%.
Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans, will launch its first two original series this coming Monday, June 18, with Family Time at 9 p.m. ET and Uptown […]
Uptown Comic to debut Monday, June 18, immediately after the series premiere of the network’s original sitcom Family Time.
Family Time, to debut Monday, June 18, is executive produced by Bentley Kyle Evans and stars Omar Gooding and Angell Conwell.
Exclusives
Bounce TV Adds WEYI Flint, WDEF Chattanooga
Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans, today announced the additions of Barrington Broadcasting Group’s NBC affiliate WEYI Flint, Mich. (DMA 68), and Morris Network CBS affil WDEF […]
The African-American targeted multicast network can now be seen on the Fox-owned MNT affiliate’s ch. 27.2.
WVUE Adds GM For Its Bounce Subchannel
Former Disney/ABC Domestic Television exec Curtis Pace will lead the efforts of the New Orleans affiliate of the new broadcast TV network for African Americans.
Bounce TV Launches On KCOP Los Angeles
The African-American targeted multicast network can now be seen on the Fox-owned MNT affiliate’s ch. 13.2.
The new network targeted to African-American audiences will appear on a subchannel of Fox’s MNT affiliate.
The new network targeted to African American audiences will appear on a subchannel of Fox’s New York MNT affiliate.
Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans, will carry the funeral of Whitney Houston live, uninterrupted and commercial-free this Saturday, Feb. 18, at noon ET. Bounce TV […]
Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans,, has acquired the television rights to more African American-skewing motion pictures in two individual, multi-year licensing agreements with Warner Bros. […]
Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans, will pay tribute to the life of the legendary Don Cornelius with Bounce TV Remembers Don Cornelius, a seven-hour marathon […]
Documentaries will premiere Every Wednesday night in February. Also featured are reflections from Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall and other African American celebrities that will air throughout the month.
Bounce TV Powers Ratings On WVUE
After two months on the New Orleans’ Fox affil’s ch. 8.2, the new African-American targeted network is competitive with some other stations in the market and equal to or better than numerous cable nets, the station reports.
Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans, announced today that the network will present the broadcast television premiere of the documentary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A […]
Diginets Hope To Boost Affil Counts In Miami
Multicast programmers will be at this month’s NATPE exhibition hoping to expand and improve their affiliate lineups. And their growing importance to the industry is reflected in the show’s scheduling of a panel dedicated to the business on Monday afternoon (Jan. 23) featuring representatives of Me-TV, Antenna TV and Live Well.
These latest deals put the new over-the-air multicast network targeted to African Americans at more than 70% of U.S. African-American households.
The multicast network for African Americans has signed up WTXL Tallahassee, Fla., and WFXL Albany, Ga., and has acquired all 113 episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans, today signed a distribution agreement with Louisiana Media Co.’s Fox affiliate WVUE New Orleans (DMA 52) to carry it on […]
The new over-the-air multicast network targeted to African Americans will be carried on a number of Fox-owned MyNetworkTV subchannels including stations in New York and Los Angeles.
The former UN ambassador and principal in Bounce TV is working to make the case on Capitol Hill for broadcasters who want to keep their digital spectrum.
This latest deal with Gannett puts the new over-the-air multicast network targeted to African Americans at more than 50% coverage of the U.S.
Bounce TV, the new over-the-air television network for African Americans, will premiere Fat Albert’s Halloween Special this weekend and will present a mini-marathon of the classic 1977 special on Halloween […]
MGM is in cahoots with an exec who helped launch TV One on a broadcast network for African Americans. The planned channel, KIN TV, is being marketed as a diginet and will compete with the newly launched Bounce TV.
In conjunction with Monday’s launch of the new broadcast TV network aimed at African-American, it debuts a website and establishes a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
Bounce TV, the country’s first-ever over-the-air broadcast television network for African-Americans, will launch with a special presentation of The Wiz on Monday, Sept. 26 at noon ET. Toyota USA will […]
Bounce TV Adds Philly, Kansas City
The new broadcast network targeted to African Americans has signed up Lenfest’s WMCN Philadelphia and Meredith’s KSMO Kansas City in advance of its Sept. 26 launch.
Bounce TV Adds Chicago, Milwaukee
The new broadcast network targeted to African Americans adds Weigel Broadcasting’s WWME Chicago and WBME Milwaukee as it approaches its Sept. 26 launch.
Toyota USA signs as charter advertiser of the African-American targeted broadcast multicast network that’s set to launch Sept. 26.
New African-American television network Bounce TV will launch in Atlanta on Gannett’s WATL when the new network debuts on Sept. 26. The deal marks Atlanta-based Bounce TV’s first agreement with Gannett.
The new broadcast network targeted to African Americans adds KHOU Houston and announces it will launch Sept. 26 at noon ET.
Marathon Ventures to handle direct response ad sales for the new African-American targeted diginet, while ACE Media Corp. will run sponsorship and general market efforts.
Nexstar Broadcasting Group has agreed to carry Bounce TV, the new digital over-the-air network aimed at African-American viewers. Bounce, backed by a group led by Martin Luther King III and Ambassador Andrew Young, and announced in April, has already signed carriage deals that will put it in markets representing 32% of the country when it launches in the fall.
LIN Deal Means More Markets For Bounce TV
The TV group owner will carry the proposed broadcast network for African Americans in Indianapolis, Hartford-New Haven, Norfolk, Dayton and Mobile-Pensacola for a projected 50% clearance at launch this fall.
Bounce Set To Jump Into The Multicast Game
The new multicast channel aims to fill what its creators see as an unserved need: a movie-based service targeting African-Americans between the ages of 25 and 54. Coming off last week’s announcement that it has the Raycom stations on board in 26 markets, co-EVP Ryan Glover talks about Bounce TV’s goals and strategies, including why it opted to go broadcast rather than cable.
The new multicast channel targeted to African Americans gets its first big carriage deal. Starting this fall, when the network launches, Raycom will carry it in 26 markets covering 10% of U.S. TV home and nearly 19% of African-American TV homes.
