Central City Productions acquires "America's Black Forum" from UniWorld

(January 6, 2006) According to media critic Richard Prince’s column Journal-isms, the syndicated public affairs television show "America's Black Forum" has been sold to Central City Productions, the Chicago-based company that produces the "Stellar Gospel Music Awards."

Don Jackson (above), founder, chairman and CEO of 32-year-old Central City Productions, Inc., a national television production, sales and syndication company, told Journal-isms that his company bought the 29-year old program from the black-owned UniWorld Group advertising agency. Byron Lewis Jr., the show's Washington-based executive producer and son of Byron Lewis, chairman of UniWorld, told Journal-isms that the sale was effective Jan. 1 and that the transfer seemed to be "a good thing for all parties," given Jackson's experience in sales.

Central City also co-produces “The Black Enterprise Report” with the magazine for which it’s named. Launched in November 2003, the syndicated weekly half-hour television series focuses on African American financial and personal empowerment.

Hosted by Jim Brown and Juan Williams, ABF is syndicated in 70 major markets and is also carried by the TV One cable network. Johnathan Rodgers, CEO of TV One, has cited "America's Black Forum" as an example of its public affairs offerings. "We're proud to every Sunday air 'America's Black Forum,' because one of the great complaints here in the nation's capital is that the African American leaders do not get a chance on Sunday morning television," he said last week on National Public Radio's "News and Notes."


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