NEW YORK — Comcast will launch four minority-owned networks on its cable-TV systems in the next two years, including channels spearheaded by music mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and former NBA great Magic Johnson.
Two of the networks are majority black-owned, while two are majority American-Latino-owned, all of them programming in English, Comcast said.
It was unclear how much of an on-camera role, if any, Combs and Johnson might play on their respective networks. The new channels, which in all will total 10 rolling out in the next eight years, are part of an agreement reached by Comcast with the FCC and Department of Justice when it was allowed to become majority owner of NBCUniversal.
These four networks, and the six others yet to be announced, are being chosen from more than 100 proposals, Comcast said. Each will be added as part of Comcast’s digital basic tier of service. The Associated Press
