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HBCU SPORTS NETWORK TO LAUNCH LATER THIS YEAR (HISTORICAL BLACK COLLEGES UNIV.)

gregg75

gregg75

gregg75 said:
This new sports network will soft-launch later this year from Atlanta and expects to become a full
24/7 channel by February 2012.

http://atlantapost.com/2011/05/26/i-want-my-hbcu-tv/
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It's not particularly encouraging that Mr. Symonds keeps mentioning what or who is being discussed for involvement instead of what they have in actual commitments--they're 'talking' to Comcast about potential carriage, and they're 'talking' to Jamie Foxx about producing some shows.

I can believe in their ability from putting together programming involving HBCUs or HBCU sports. But as a production company pitching and pumping shows to established outlets like BET, TVOne, and perhaps ESPNU or ESPN Classic...not a dedicated HBCU channel. NUE-TV and what eventually became Black Family Channel both failed while aiming more broadly.
 
I wish them luck - but to me, whenever I see this acronym, I will always think of either one of two things: 1) HSBC, a regional bank with chains in the Northeast but based, I believe, out of Japan; 2) the fictional "HBC" network from "South Park" that aired the equally fictional "Terrance & Philip: Not Without My ****" movie.
 
This is just silly. I see notes like this as a way to try to draw potential investors to a project that simply can't draw money to it through traditional sources. This kind of fishing does not work. This a akin to "vaporware" in the computer business.

Bottom line: this channel will not happen.
 
William_Yeager said:
I wonder if a better approach would be to syndicate sports offerings to a network like TV One and/or BET.
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I agree...TV One carried a basketball tourament from one of the HBCU conferences this past spring, and BET (up until the early years of the Viacom ownership) use to carry some HBCU football and basketball games for years. If anything, the "dream" network would have carriage in certain portions of the country on cable (from Washington, D.C. southward to Florida, and westward into parts of Texas), possibly nationally via satellite. Its coverage would be like the Mountain West Network as opposed to the Big Ten Network.
 
It's noteworthy for the attempt but TV One and BET, I mean Viacom, needs to place more emphasis on televising sports events from HBCUs.

To DtotheJ, the acronym "HBCU" predates HSBC or Southpark considering its been used since the beginning of the past century as a PC way to describe black schools instead of "negro colleges and universities". That kind of shows how much exposure you truly had to blacks if you think of those 2 things instead of historically black institutions of higher education when this "HBCU" is used...
 
All we really have for 24/7 College Sports is know Fox Sports and ESPNU so it might work.
The more new Channels the better.
 
I imagine there will be some syndication, at least at the start. Remember, these are not tier
one colleges, so many of thier games are probaby under-served.

Just think of all the folks who thought CNN wouldn't last, but it did.
 
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