Comcast’s X1 Launches Bounce’s Brown Sugar Streaming Service

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Comcast has agreed to offer Bounce’s subscription streaming service Brown Sugar to Xfinity cable subscribers via its X1 system.

The over the top service costs $3.99 a month and features a collection of African-American movies and on-demand access to Bounce’s original series and boxing events.

X1 customers can sign up for a seven day free trial.

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X1 already offers streaming services like Netflix and YouTube to its subscribers and is in the process of adding Amazon Prime Video. Brown Sugar can be found in Xfinity on Demand’s Black Film & TV section under networks.

Brown Sugar is also available on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Channels, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Kindle, Android and Apple smartphones and tablets and web browsers via BrownSugar.com,

Bounce is part of the E.W. Scripps Co.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.