If so, too bad.

I’ve thought it was going to merge with TV One, not just die.

Our activists like to talk about our hundred billion dollar spending power. Well,  it’s clear now that having a trillion dollars doesn’t and won’t mean much if that money is not targeted—if we can’t convince advertisers and cable and satellite operators that the best way to reach us is through Black-owned, -controlled and -oriented media.

I remember when a Black Family Channel was Robert Johnson’s idea almost a decade ago. The BET founder said he got much love from the Congressional Black Caucus and the Movement crowd, but nada support from the cable industry. Willie Gary went ahead and did it anyway, but I see that the story ended the same—one of debits and credits.

Let’s hope against hope that it archives online the good things it did. That way, there will be dataspheric proof  it ever existed.

Okay, TV One, time to step up even stronger.

APRIL 28 UPDATE: Richard Prince mentions that the channel will move to the Internet. Good luck.