Bounce’s Brown Sugar OTT Service to Air Live Boxing Card

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Bounce TV’s Brown Sugar OTT service will add boxing to its lineup of classic African-American films when it steams live a June 30 Premier Boxing Champions fight card.

The SVOD service will offer the Robert Easter-Denis Shafkov fight card live, the first time Brown Sugar has offered a live boxing card. Bounce has carried several Premier Boxing Champions events over the past year. 

Brown Sugar, which offers a lineup of classic 1970s and 1980s African-American targeted films, is available on computers, mobile phones and tablets for $3.99 a month.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.