Black Network: NBN gets radio rights
NEW YORK - The National Black Network will have the exclusive English-language radio rights to the Jan. 22 heavyweight championship bout between Mike Tyson and former champion Larry Holmes, promoter Don King said Monday. The fight will be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center and will be broadcast on NBN's 122 affiliates across the country. ...
Black Network: Slow scandal
Too many took too long to act against BCCI
If there is anything more alarming than a massive, fraudulent international bank with its own "black network" intelligence arm specializing in drug laundering, arms sales and worldwide intimidation, it is the lack of interest shown by regulatory and law-enforcement entities over the years in the dozens of countries in which the bank operated. Three weeks ago, international regulators in 62 nations cooperated in shutting down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International....
Black Network: MAX ROBINSON, NEWSCASTER WAS FIRST BLACK TO ANCHOR NETWORK BROADCAST
Max Robinson, the nation's first black network television news anchor, died today at 49.Mr. Robinson died at 9:30 a.m. EST at Howard University Hospital in the nation's capital from complications resulting from AIDS, according to hospital spokeswoman Tonya Swanson. It had been three years since Mr. Robinson worked regularly in television. He earned his spot in broadcasting history in 1978 when he began co-anchoring the ABC Evening News from Chicago with Peter...
Black Network: BROADCASTER TO ADDRESS MINORITIES
The president of America's first black-owned national radio news service, the National Black Network, will speak at a luncheon for Dade's minority entrepreneurs Monday. The luncheon, featuring Eugene Jackson of the Unity Broadcasting Network, will begin at noon at the University of Miami Faculty Club, 1550 Brescia Ave., Coral Gables.Tickets for the luncheon are $6.50 and are available by calling Sharon Ryland at the county's Office of Community and...