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CLEO Speaks: Celebrating a New Network in Black Woman-Centered Media
Can a sister circle exist on a cable network? That’s the question posed by CLEO TV, Xfinity Black Film & TV’s entry into the growing arena of aspirational lifestyle and entertainment media content created specifically created for women of color—with a particular emphasis on millennial and Gen X black women. The network officially launched in…
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Giants Cleans Up at Daytime Emmys, Takes Home Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor
Smash hit web series Giants continued its reign on Friday, with actress Vanessa Baden Kelly and actor Terrence Terrell taking home the hardware for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The series, which debuted on Issa Rae’s YouTube channel in 2017,…
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Television for Colored Girls: CLEO TV Cozies Up to Black Millennial Women
For the new year, a new cable channel dedicated to young black women will hit the airwaves. And it promises to be more than just reruns, rehashed specials, depressing docuseries and R&B music videos viewers have seen elsewhere. The channel, CLEO TV—a nod to the Egyptian queen of two centuries past mostly known in pop…
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2 Black-Owned Networks Are Coming to the Comcast Channel Lineup in 2019
Comcast Corporation has an agreement with two African American majority owned independent networks to distribute their channels on Comcast Cable systems beginning in January 2019. Comcast announced in a release on Thursday that after a process of thoroughly evaluating dozens of proposals, it had selected AFRO and CLEO TV to provide quality entertainment that highlights…