Broadcasting & Cable is reporting one of the founders of African-American diginet BounceTV is looking to launch two new digital broadcast networks this summer.
According to B&C, Jonathan Katz has started his own company (Katz Broadcasting) that will debut the female-targeted Escape and the male-focused Grit later this year. Both networks plan to air theatrical movies and off-network programs (hopefully including some classic TV in the mix 🙂 )
Katz reportedly has a deal in place with Spanish broadcaster Univision. This would give the new networks carriage in such major markets as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.
I hoping I get here for free here in SO CAL
I think maybe Bounce TV would open up channel 34.2 and one those channel you mention be on Channel 13.2 where Bounce is at here in Los Angeles market
I’m assuming Bounce will stay on Fox-owned KCOP 13.2 and the new channels will go to Univision’s KMEX 34.2 and 34.3. We’ll see what happens 🙂
Yeah I like that turn out that could probably works out
Since I live in Los Angeles I score not only I have all those channel
Bounce TV
Cozi TV
Antenna TV
retro tv
ME TV
Movies tv network
GET TV
Also THIS TV network
I got it made LOL!
Speaking on so called Regular TV channel
I start get new MOVIES network called the WORKS on KDOC Channel 56.4 today
hear of it???
Looks like KDOC runs 5 channels total, including MeTV on 56.3 and The Works on 56.4. I’ve never heard of The Works before but will look into it further…thanks for the heads up!
Finally found an article on The Works. It is from MGM, which co-founded and owns 50% of ThisTV.
I notice this morning while turn into ME TV saw that I think they soft launch this new Movies network the WORKS look interesting no website that may change soon
So far I haven’t found one website on so called WORKS Movies network
Just discovered The Works 56.4. Love it! My kind of shows!
Great news I found the story on GRIT and Escape new Bounce tv spin off network
Two new demo-specific broadcast networks created by Jonathan Katz, the architect and Chief Operating Officer of successful African American network Bounce TV, will launch this summer. Escape will target women 25-54 with a brand of programming that’s daring, sexy and anchored in stories of crime and mystery. The network’s mix of theatrical motion pictures and off-net series will emphasize heroines and heroes that slip away from pursuit or peril, while providing viewers themselves the opportunity to escape from their daily lives. With a heavy focus on western and war genres, action-oriented Grit will be a new television brand built around the classic male hero archetype. Featuring stars like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Chuck Norris, the network will reach men 25-54 with theatricals and off-network series that are bold, brave and legendary. Univision Television Group, which owns and/or operates television stations in major U.S. markets, will launch both Escape and Grit as a multicast channel on stations representing more than 30% of U.S. television households. Initial markets include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Miami.
We will have more details on the off-network acquisitions soon, but as of now they have acquired the television rights to 135 demo-targeted motion pictures in a multi-year licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD). Warner Bros. drama and thriller titles earmarked for Escape include: The contemporary classic Body Heat starring Kathleen Turner; Demi Moore in Disclosure; the Nicole Kidman thrillers Dead Calm and Malice; Kathy Bates creating Misery for James Caan, based on the Stephen King story; Bates in another King tale, Dolores Claiborne with Jennifer Jason Leigh; Copycat starring Sigourney Weaver; Blink with Madeline Stowe and Cate Blanchett as Charlotte Gray; John Grisham’s Presumed Innocent; Michelle Pfeiffer in Tequila Sunrise; Star 80 and more. Among the stars and titles headed to Grit in the WBDTD agreement: Clint Eastwood – As Dirty Harry in Sudden Impact, leading the charge in Kelly’s Heroes and also Bronco Billy; Arnold Schwarzenegger in Eraser; Sylvester Stallone in Cobra, Demolition Man and Victory; Jackie Chan starring in Rumble in the Bronx and Jackie Chan’s First Strike; Steven Seagal (Hard to Kill, Fire Down Below, On Deadly Ground and Out of Reach); Denzel Washington (Fallen) and more. Grit also lands such westerns as the John Wayne classics Cahill, U.S. Marshall, Chisum and The Cowboys; Young Guns and Young Guns 2; The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford starring Brad Pitt and such war and military movies as Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, Memphis Belle and Purple Hearts
Read more: http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2014/06/usa-network-orders-second-season-of.html#ixzz34RTLIp4u
I would like to thank ch 56.4 in los angeles i look forward to sunday morning at 8 am watching killer instinct it,s a great show and i hope the works keep this show going and other such nature shows.
Why do you show Walker Texas Ranger 24/7 no other shows? Really give a little more variety how about The Wild Wild West etc.