Native Americans Plan New Cable Channel
Jay Winter Nightwolf, who currently hosts a program on 89.3 FM, joined a group planning to launch a cable channel geared towards Native Americans. Native American TV was formed in 1990, in part, to train Indian youths for careers in broadcast. Now the group wants to start a cable channel, which would feature news specials, cooking programs, films, historic documentaries, standup comedy and more. One program, “Meet Native America,” would bring together a panel of Indian journalists to interview lawmakers and newsmakers in a fashion similar to “Meet the Press.”
“BET has its own network and Univision appeals to Latinos (but)there’s nothing for Native Americans,” NATV executive director Randy Flood told the AP.
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