{"id":13032,"date":"2012-02-23T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13032"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:37:45","slug":"magic-johnson-starting-tv-network-targeting-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13032","title":{"rendered":"Magic Johnson Starting TV Network Targeting Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. \u2014 <strong>Earvin \u201cMagic\u201d Johnson<\/strong> is launching a basic cable television network targeting black viewers with positive, uplifting images of African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The former Los Angeles Lakers star said that his 24-hour Aspire channel will also offer opportunities for Blacks who have struggled to find work in mainstream Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Aspire\u2019s mix will include film, TV, music, comedy, performing arts and shows about faith.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old <strong>Johnson<\/strong>, who was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002, says he\u2019s wanted a vehicle to showcase positive images of African Americans with stories written, produced and directed by Blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast Corp. reached an agreement with the FCC and Department of Justice to diversify.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnson\u2019s<\/strong> channel will launch on June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. \u2014 Earvin \u201cMagic\u201d Johnson is launching a basic cable television network targeting black viewers with positive, uplifting images of African Americans. The former Los Angeles Lakers star said that his 24-hour Aspire channel will also offer opportunities for Blacks who have struggled to find work in mainstream Hollywood. Aspire\u2019s mix will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}