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Serial entrepreneur Peggy Dodson launching cable-TV network this fall
Peggy Dodson., CEO and President of the Urban Broadcasting Company
A Harlem entrepreneur will try to defy all the odds and launch a new cable-TV network this fall, hoping to fill what she calls a gaping hole in “multicultural programming.”
UBC-TV, for Urban Broadcasting Co., is guided by CEO and President Peggy Dodson, a former jazz singer who has run a self-empowerment company for more than a decade.
Dodson says she has spent the past eight years getting the financing, assembling the support and launching the actual programming that UBC-TV will make available in some 40 million homes, as well as all over the Internet.
Based in Harlem, where all its shows will originate, UBC-TV will start by programming four hours a day in prime time.
Dodson says she started with US$600,000 of her own money and has “angel investors” who have contributed the millions required for a start-up.