{"id":1010,"date":"2019-08-07T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2023-08-01T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T16:39:15","slug":"black-news-channel-slated-for-a-fall-tv-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/black-news-channel-slated-for-a-fall-tv-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black News Channel\u2019 slated for a fall TV premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/080819_BNC_mar_01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/080819_BNC_mar_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/080819_BNC_mar_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/080819_BNC_mar_01-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gary Wordlaw poses for a portrait at the Black News Channel booth at the National Association of Black Journalist\u2019s annual conference at the JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort in Aventura on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE\/NABJ MONITOR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Ashlea Brown<br><em>NABJ MONITOR<br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Black News Channel will launch a 24-hour TV African-American news and content channel for African Americans this fall. Board chairman and former Rep. J.C. Watts Jr., the network\u2019s founder, said he has planned this channel since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gary Wordlaw, vice president of news and programming at BNC, said Watts\u2019 \u201cinspiration comes from years of coverage on the African-American community usually told from a point of negative bias.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The channel will differ from BET Network \u201cby employing news journalists, and not just opinion hosts to deliver daily messages concerning black communities,\u201d he said. \u201cThere will be limited use of pundits and more use of experts from the more than 100 historically black colleges and universities from across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BNC is a diverse television network open for anyone who wants to learn and see the many sides to the African-American community, Wordlaw said. There is not one type of news topic that will be covered through the network. BNC will cover the country, world and community news.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt BNC, we believe all news is local,\u201d Wordlaw said. \u201cThe people and their experience across the country will drive coverage, not crime and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BNC has already planned several weekly programs, including sports coverage that highlights teams and sports on the campuses of HBCUs. Additional programming will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cBeing a Woman,\u201d a daily one-hour talk show with topics about women of all ages about childbirth, business, elders and politics.&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cToday\u2019s Teen Talk,\u201d a program where family therapist Jane Marks interviews teens and families to help them navigate life through today\u2019s society.&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cMy America,\u201d a weekly one-hour talk show hosted by Watts to examine the global issues that affect African-American communities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>BNC will also launch internship and training programs next month for HBCU students. Georgia Dawkins, the director of HBCU Services, said there will be opportunities for young journalists who are participating in the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a graduate of Florida A&amp;M University, I have personally experienced the value of the HBCU network,\u201d Dawkins said. \u201cWhen I was a student at FAMU, I was hired by \u2018ABC News\u2019 to work at \u2018Good Morning America.\u2019 I later learned that it was a graduate from Howard University and Spelman College alumna who held the door open for me. I am honored to pay it forward in my new role with BNC.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawkins said there is a desire for BNC to be involved with helping student journalists succeed.&nbsp; BNC wants to have a career day and do college tours. A special part of BNC\u2019s partnership with HBCUs will be to train the next generation of storytellers and then hire them, Dawkins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The network wants to connect not only with college students but also with the whole African-American community as its target audience, Dawkins said. It will offer an HBCU database that will provide access to diverse academic experts, authors and specialists who will serve as the network\u2019s nightly on-air contributing analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Black News Channel will launch a 24-hour TV African-American news and content channel for African Americans this fall. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/black-news-channel-slated-for-a-fall-tv-premiere\/\" title=\"\u2018Black News Channel\u2019 slated for a fall TV premiere\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,83],"tags":[94,93,92,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-1010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"category-nabj-19","9":"tag-black-news-channel","10":"tag-bnc","11":"tag-gary-wordlaw","12":"tag-nabj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}