Bounce TV lands N.Y. clearance

KingYoungStartup digital multicast funnel Bounce TV will get a sizable distribution boost using a carriage agreement with Fox-possessed WWOR-TV NY.The Black-specific funnel bowed Monday just like a multicast funnel on WWOR. Bounce TV mentioned it's due to launch soon on Fox's KCOP La and possibly other stations, but a Fox Tv Producers repetition wouldn't confirm any deals beyond Gotham.Carriage inside the nation's greatest TV market might help Bounce TV pull in greater advertising rates and make it lure across the nation oriented blurbs. Funnel, which bowed in September, is becoming removed on stations covering greater than 50% of U.S. TV houses and 72% of African-American houses.Bounce TV aims to draw in the 25-54 demographic with a combination of acquired movies and series additionally to sports and inspiring special deals. It absolutely was designed just like a distribution-style offering for broadcast Tv producers to help keep digital subchannels that tv producers offer after making the transition to digital telecasting.Atlanta-based Bounce TV is individually possessed by African-American traders, a business including Martin Luther King III and former Not ambassador Andrew Youthful. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com