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Bounce Gets a Bump From New Sitcom

Apr 10, 2015  •  Post A Comment

Bounce TV had the most-watched original program in its history with the premiere of the new comedy series “Mann & Wife.”

The broadcast channel, which bills itself as the country’s “first-ever and fastest-growing broadcast television network designed for African-American audiences,” reported that the show delivered 461,000 viewers 2+, nearly doubling the average of the previous four weeks. The series premiered Tuesday, April 7, at 9 p.m. ET.

The broadcast pulled 260,000 households (up 41%) and 142,000 adults 18-49 (up 67%), Bounce reported.

Across its two premiere night timeslots, “Mann & Wife” reached almost 800m000 viewers 2+ and 540,000 households, according to the announcement.

The comedy features real-life husband and wife David Mann and Tamela Mann, who star in and executive produce the show.

Bounce airs on the digital signals of local television stations and features a programming mix of original and off-network series, theatrical motion pictures, documentaries, specials, live sports and more.

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2 Comments

  1. The broadcast channel, which bills itself as the country’s “first-ever and fastest-growing broadcast television network designed for African-American audiences,”

    Can you imagine the uproar if someone announced they had created a “Television Network designed for Caucasian audiences”?

  2. Well to be perfectly honest, you don’t have to announce or label something that had been structurally prominent and oppressive since the beginning. Hence the need to raise or announce something for other cultures and ethnicities to reflect what the truth of the world looks like…African American, Spanish, Asian not just Caucasian. Cause I guarantee if it were the other way around, Caucasians would be wanting anything that represented them. In the history of this business or world for that fact I’ve never seen or heard any Caucasians running around screaming the need for diversity while only seeing images of themselves, which is a bias perspective. so this uproar you speak of would be based nothing other than to keep things the way they are, unfair and it has no merit our foundation. So please have your non consequential uproar, we all need something to laugh at….

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