Ex-Rep. Watts Pushing Black News Network

Former Republican Rep. J.C. Watts is leading an effort to launch an all-news TV channel aimed at African-Americans.

Comcast has agreed to carry the network, tentatively called Black Television News Channel, in early 2009, according to the New York Post. Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Baltimore are some of the cities that will get the channel.

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