Cathy Hughes and TV One heads to the Democratic National Convention
TV One, the television station started by preeminent Radio One founder Cathy Hughes, is set to provide comprehensive coverage of next week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. For the first time ever, a television network tailored to urban sophisticates will provide live convention floor coverage, featuring Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama, from a primarily African American perspective. Their coverage will be supplemented by co-hosts XM Radio along with nationally renowned radio host Joe Madison of WOL-AM Radio and CN8.
The unprecedented, innovative coverage will be augmented by a myriad of distinguished African American panelists each night on “TV One Live: DNC Afterparty,” featuring Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network; TV One commentator and CNN regular Roland Martin; University of Pennsylvania professor and prolific author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson; “CSI: NY” star and author of the best-selling Letters to a Young Brother, Hill Harper; comedienne Sheryl Underwood; former BET Nightly News anchor Jacque Reid; and Rev. Marcia Dyson.
Nielsen Ratings estimate that TV One boasts an audience of about 43 million, and it expects to rise exponentially during the four-day historic affair. The nightly post-convention coverage will include commentary from cultural influencers, coverage of the day’s social, cultural and political events, and will feature spotlights from the convention floor and from around the city of Denver. "The nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United States is a historic event in the lives of African Americans, so it is important for TV One to be there for our audience," said TV One President and CEO Johnathan Rodgers.
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According to officials, TV One will also “air all three of its one-hour specials based on Tavis Smiley's 2008 ‘State of the Black Union’ symposium held earlier this year in New Orleans; and ‘Lessons from Little Rock: A National Report Card’, a documentary hosted by Hill Harper that explores the state of public education for African Americans 50 years after the Little Rock Nine first integrated an all-white high school in Arkansas in 1957 with government troops by their side.”
–terry shropshire
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