Bounce TV Plays Ball With Gannett, Adds Atlanta To Roll Out

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• ….theatrical motion pictures, live sporting events, documentaries, specials, inspirational faith-based programs, off-net series, original programming and more.”

  Not sure why black Americans need another whole network all for themselves; after all, they’ve got BET and VH-1. Of interest is that the “original programming” part of the press release is the last thing mentioned before finishing with “and more”. My guess is that BounceTV will become a clearing-house for BET and VH-1′s sloppy seconds.

  The ambition is noble, but it is doomed to failure. After all, was this not the same agenda BET had when it debuted? And we all saw what became of BET. Within two years it will become clear that the network can’t earn a profit showing documentaries about MLK and “inspirational faith-based programs” (read: cheap and/or free live broadcasts of Eddie Long’s sermons) and BounceTV will be in the gutter showing repeats of HOMEBOYZ IN OUTER SPACE and booty-shaking/ gangsta videos that even BET was too embarrassed to put on their network.

  Comment by Gravity's Silhouette — Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 10:33am EDT  Reply to this post

  • Gravity’s…,

    What? First, VH1 is not a ‘black’ channel. Second, BET was more than happy to show booty-shaking videos. It was only after much protest and the decline of gangsta rap that it stopped showing them.

    That said, BET was profitable and sold for billions of dollars to Viacom. As it stands, BET now has done very well with its new scripted series. The premiere of the scripted dramedy/soap “The Game” received 7.7 million viewers. Those are huge numbers for cable

    As for Bounce, it will be a broadcast network, giving it more penetration in the market. With increasing numbers of people dropping cable, a niche broadcast network aimed at African-Americans is no different than the 3 broadcast networks aimed at Latinos (Telemundo, Univsion, etc.).

    Success will depend on great marketing and great content. Hopefully, Bounce will be able to invest in new scripted programming. Tyler Perry’s TBS programs have earned great ratings and have been very profitable.

    Comment by Lily — Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 1:20pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Gravity’s Silhouette,

    You sound grotesquely ignorant. Don’t know why “black Americans” need another network? Here’s an assignment: go count how many Black shows are on the five commercial networks and see if you can answer your own stupid question. Secondly, VH-1 is a black network? Tell it to Audrina Patridge, Dr. Drew, Bret Michaels and all the Mob wives.

    I love how white people have literally every commercial network and hundreds of cable networks, but if black people have anything, there’s always someone to complain about it. No, America’s not racist anymore, oh no, of course not…

    Comment by still fighting against ignorance — Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 12:57am EDT  Reply to this post

• Well I dont mind another African American channel. I mean I have enough channels showing me drunk petty white women, white trash motorcycle gangs, fat white cracker dudes fishing, tatooed up up crackers, real life white cocaine addicted stars playing themselves on TV — who then by the way wind up having massive real life fights with their jewish masters that plays out on TV, online, and just about every other media. I actually watch all this and just laugh my ass off at those people. BET is the only channel that lets me laugh at black folk. Why not another one.

  Comment by Wellness — Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 1:21pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Could “And More” be code for “Infomercials”???

  Comment by Joseph — Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 2:59pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Oh, wow, great. Now african-americans can get exploited and shamed on broadcast now

  Honestly, BET is pretty disgusting. Actually, scratch that, al black-targeted networks are disgusting. Not because they are for african-americans, but because they play on stereotypes and dumb down many minorities that view them.

  I bet MLK is rolling in his grave at the sad state african-american culture is in now. It’s sad when black people know more about Weezy, Gucci Mane, or Wakka Flocka than they know about their own history.

  Comment by Timothy — Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 3:08pm EDT  Reply to this post

• The main problem with Bounce will be African Americans as a group do not have a lot of disposable income. A group of 100 African Americans will have, on average, less income than a group of 100 Whites or 100 Asians or even 100 Latinos.

  So you need more viewers to equal the same ad rates. This won’t happen. Bounce will either fail or it will change direction and resort to more “mainstream” shows or infomercials.

  Comment by EricPost — Monday August 8, 2011 @ 2:03pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I watched a pretty fair old “fishburn” movie earlier today on bounce, tv our way, I just assumed that “our way” meant old Mississippi white guys…

  “ThisTV” was better imnsho but hell, as long as we’re talking free television, I’ll give it a shot, and just as all networks show crap as often as not, I’ll keep a fresh battery in the remote.

  I wonder if “TV for Americans” would ever catch on…

  Comment by LeeMcMichael — Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 6:15pm EDT  Reply to this post