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Black Family Channel (launched in 1999 as MBC Network) was an American cable television network which featured programming aimed at African-American audiences. The network's schedule included a variety of programs including religious programs, sports, music, talk shows, and children's programs.
Formerly MBC Network; subscriber base sold to Gospel Music Channel after shutdown. Caribbean Satellite Network: New Urban Entertainment Television (NUE-TV) Space Station TeleVision May 2001/October 2002: The MBC Movie Network: Minority Broadcasting Corp. World African Network
The website's name is derived from the word griot, the term for a West African oral historian and storyteller. [3] The website originally launched in June 2009 as a division of NBC News. [4] [5] It was founded by the team who created the documentary film Meeting David Wilson. It became a division of MSNBC in 2013. In 2014, it was sold to its ...
While a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, she led a shift from election coverage to a focus on COVID-19. [10] On February 1, 2021, Jones succeeded Phil Griffin as the president of MSNBC and became the first African-American woman to run a major cable news network. [11] On January 14, 2025, she resigned from the network. [12]
MBC 1 was the first broadcaster to provide a satellite-based, free-to-air 24-hour television broadcasting network across the Arab world. The Group's current chairman is Sam Barnett. [7] Barnett returned as MBC Group CEO in December 2020 after a one-year departure. [8] MBC's television arm broadcasts via Eutelsat, Arabsat and Nilesat satellites ...
She moved to television at Chicago's WMAQ and on to NBC News in 1975, becoming the first African-American woman to anchor a major network newscast. [3] She joined ABC News in 1982, and was an anchor for the weekend edition of World News Tonight from 1988 until October 2003. [2]
The Black News Channel (BNC) was an American pay television news channel, targeting the African American demographic. The channel was based in Tallahassee, Florida, and launched on February 10, 2020. [1] The station was co-founded by television executive Bob Brillante and former congressman J. C. Watts, who was also the network's chairman. [1]
John Wesley Claver Jones (November 12, 1949 – March 5, 1991), was an American journalist who became the first African-American news anchor in the Philadelphia television market. He was also the first anchor to be born, raised, and educated in Philadelphia.