by Milton KentFiled under: Sports Business and MediaWith most of the major conferences and a few independents having gone into the television programming and distribution game, most of the nation's historically black colleges and universities are poised to start their own channel.
The HBCU Network, which will draw from games involving the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the Southwestern Athletic Conference, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, is expected to launch in August, though Curtis Symonds, the channel's CEO, told Multichannel News there might be a soft launch in February.
The amalgam of leagues, which covers schools such as Howard, Morgan State, Grambling, Southern, North Carolina A&T, Jackson State, Morehouse, Tuskegee, Virginia Union, covers a broad swath of land from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest and South.
Channel executives are negotiating with some of the nation's largest cable carriers and satellite providers and are hoping to launch with about 10 million subscribers. ESPN, which holds the rights to MEAC and SWAC football games, will have its pick of games before the HBCU Network. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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