106 & Park Moving To Digital

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106 & Park Moving To Digital

One of BET’s iconic countdown show will NO LONGER be on TV because 106 & Park Moving To Digital. The  show will transition to a digital-only platform in 2015.

CelebNMusic247.com has the details that the 14 year run of the countdown show 106 & Park is coming to and end on TV. It’s the end of an era, especially if you witnessed the AJ and Free who made the series the hit that it is.

BET’s president of musical programming and specials, Stephen Hill addressed the transition in a statement on the station’s website, detailing what is to be expected from the show’s new form.

It’s been a great 14-year run as America’s top music/variety show on cable. And now that very valuable brand is going to take its talents to the digital realm. The interactive brand you helped build, 106 & Park, is alive and well…and it’s moving to the space in which our audience NOW interacts with music the most: online. It’ll be very exciting to connect with the millions of people that are already engaged with 106 & Park and other BET digital and social media entities and bring content that will further evolve the 106 & Park brand — and enhance the overall BET Networks brand. As we transition to the digital space, we look to continue 106 & Park’s role as both a leader of and a mirror to youth culture. We’ll have more information to share about how that is to roll out very soon.

And 106 & Park will still have specials on BET. What’s a New Year’s Eve without 106 & Party? 106 & Park Presents: 106 & Party will be on-air to take our viewers into the beginning of the second half of this decade in a big way. And when it’s time for the BET Awards to come around, you can be sure that 106 & Park Presents: Live, Red and Ready will be ushering you into the show and that 106 & Park will be an integral part of the BET Experience.

I’m not trying to minimize it; this is a very big change. We thank all the people who have worked on the show over the years; the talented hosts, the hard-working staff, production crews, and all the incredible guests we’ve had. Most of all, we’d like to humbly thank the “livest audience”, both in studio and at home, who fueled this landmark TV show from the very beginning. Meet you in the digital domain.

We understand the digital move, but we think it’s NOT a smart move, because hip hop fans will end up going else wear for hip hop news like Revolt TV.

BET has just taken another step out of the hip hop music world and one step further in becoming a network that is just black television and no music.

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