The Congressional Black Caucus and an owner of cable’s Africa Channel have turned up the pressure on Comcast, blasting the cable giant for its business practices and legal strategy in fightin…
for what she characterized as the company’s failure to live up to commitments to expand the channel’s distribution. Madison is also a former NBCUniversal executive who headed the company’s diversity and inclusion department at the time that General Electric sold its majority interest in NBCU to Comcast in early 2011.
Madison, Combs and the Congressional Black Caucus have also slammed Comcast for its legal strategy in fighting the $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit that Allen filed against Comcast in 2015. Allen asserts that Comcast declined to carry his suite of seven lifestyle channels because of bias. Comcast has vehemently denied that race played any role in its decision that there was not sufficient audience demand for Entertainment Studios’ channels.
Meanwhile, Comcast responded to Madison’s statement by noting that its carriage agreement with TAC predated its acquisition of NBCUniversal. “As the NBCU team leader who worked on and negotiated the MOU with the African American civil rights leaders, separately I had raised with Comcast that without a guaranteed subscriber count giving the Black entrepreneurs significant revenue and profit, the launch of these channels would not help them achieve success in business,” Madison wrote.
Although Comcast has not shut out TAC, Comcast has not been a good business partner. With an unkept — yet repeated — promise by Comcast of 4 million additional subscribers it’s inaccurate to include TAC in any grouping of Black-owned independent networks which would typify the Comcast business relationship as good or in any way proactive.
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