Premium Goes Hip-Hop with HYPE
A new start-up cable channel is aiming to serve young viewers interested in hip-hop-themed programming.
HYPE TV, short for Hot Young People's Entertainment Television, plans to offer music, movies, fashion and lifestyle programming that is centered on hip-hop music and culture.
The channel, slated to launch next year, plans to be a premium service, rather than a digital network. That will allow HYPE to air content like videos and movies with racier language and subject matter.
The channel has signed up Blue Flame Marketing + Advertising -- a division of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs’ entertainment firm, Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group -- to facilitate marketing, promotions and talent deals.
Former Fox Family Channel (now ABC Family) general manager Tracy Lawrence is president of the channel.
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