Comcast Seeking Proposals for New African-American-Owned Networks
Comcast Cable plans to add a pair of substantially African-American owned independent networks to cable lineups in some markets by January 2019. The company in a news release Thursday said the recruitment is part of the commitments it made in…
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its 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal. It also said since buying NBCU, it launched two African-American majority-owned networks, Aspire and Revolt, and two Hispanic-American operated networks, Baby First Americas and El Rey. It said two Hispanic-American-owned networks, Kids Central and Primo TV, will debut on Comcast Cable systems in January. Comcast said it's accepting proposals for the substantially African-American-owned indie networks through March 15. A U.S. District judge in October threw out a complaint against Comcast by Entertainment Studios Networks and the National Association of African American Owned Media alleging racism in Comcast's decision not to carry ESN networks (see 1610060002).