I SEE BLACK PEOPLE

I SEE BLACK PEOPLE

The Rise and Fall of African-American owned Television and Radio

Author – (Kristal Brent Zook) – All Rights Reversed @2008

The book covers portions of interviews with owners of African America Networks, pointing out the need to have more African Americans in television, in advertising and in network. 

One of reasons for the poor coverage of the events of Katrina was due to little or no African American networks covering the events. She commented on the shortfalls in black television who own only 3% of all available networks. 

Among the networks and channels that seem to have survived include, Black Family Channel, T.V ONE, NABOB – National Association of Black-Owned, our T.V (WHUR) Howard University, Radio One Public, KMTP, WOL, etc., there are host of others such as WAN that are still struggling like hundreds of other Stations in the Country – like those in Memphis, New Orleans, Atlanta.  

  

She argues for the role of Viacom, DISNEY, Time Warner, News Corp., and NBC/GE, National Association of Hispanic journalists, Minority Media and telecommunications council (MMTC) in delivering on time provisions for Black Audience. 

She discusses some of the challenges that are likely to meet and reviewed certain opinions from distinguished Africa American T.V owners including COMCAST and VIACOM.

  

A review by 

Sampson I. Onwuka