African American TV channel only airs Democratic Convention

[DaJudge]

Saw this in USA Today

TV One goes gavel-to-gavel for Obama

The 2008 edition of the annual Television Critics Association press tour opened in Beverly Hills on a political note from TV One, a five-year-old cable network aimed at African-American viewers.

TV One plans to celebrate the nomination of Barack Obama with gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic Convention in August. And just to make the celebratory nature clear, the signature show will be TV One Live: DNC Afterparty, a post-session talk show with Jacque Reid, Michael Eric Dyson, Marcia Dyson, Hill Harper and Sheryl Underwood.

Though the coverage will be built around the pride felt in the black community over the nomination of a black man for president, Michael Dyson says the show will stress that his appeal is beyond race. "Barack Obama ain't running for president of the black record division. He's running for president of the whole record company."

TV One's foray into politics is admittedly one-sided: The network will not cover the Republican convention at all. Won't black Republican's feel slighted? Says comedian Underwood, a Republican Obama supporter, "I speak for all eight of us: We will not be slighted." -- Robert Bianco

Fair and balanced.

[EagerBeaver]

More like "races" if you ask me.

[dolfan]

You know, I don't have a problem with that, really. They're being honest about being biased, and they're not pretending to be news. They are there to cheerlead their guy. Plus, nobody watches it. Heck it just popped up on my cable about 4 months ago and it is right next to the American Life Network that shows old Mission Impossible reruns. Unless you like to watch reruns of the Hughleys and the Eddie Murphy claymation cartoon series, you're probably not going to see much on TV One that'll grab you. It's not really good TV, and I don't think black people watch that much of it. They're cable, they're not regulated by FCC rules, and I may watch a little of it just to see the sport they'll make of drinking the koolaid.

[DaJudge]

I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to do this, I'm saying that it is a slimey thing to do. Admitting that they are slimey doesn't mitigate the fact that they are, in fact, slimey.

[dolfan]

I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to do this, I'm saying that it is a slimey thing to do. Admitting that they are slimey doesn't mitigate the fact that they are, in fact, slimey.

Touche.

It's slimey because it's big government liberalism on parade, I get that much. If I'm a Republican, I don't think I want them covering my convention. They couldn't help themselves from being all Air America and everything about it. They're lefty loonies covering their own lefty loony convention. McCain should be proud they won't come watch him. Not that it would matter much since no one watches, but still ....