This is a question which has been on the tongue of many music fans  lips for the past 10-15 years, even though in Britain we gave events such as the MOBO awards and platforms such as Channel AKA, Link Up TV, SBTV and GRM Daily, it seems in Britain there is a lack of a constantly successful platform to link all types of music which is  of black origin and there is not one which reaches the entire world or even certain parts of the nation we live in. All the aforementioned platforms/organisations are the leaders along with Radio 1XTRA that provide a voice for our type of music- all of which have done massive amounts of work to expand the platform for us. America has had BET aka Black Entertainment Television for over 3 decades and although it was gotten some negative criticism  it is undoubtedly the leading platform for urban music, with a wide range of programming not just in music.

People have argued that creating this type of program may cause resentment in society as it could isolate the culture from other people which will not be the aim, the best way around this is to make it accessible as possible to everybody  and try to do its best not to portray common negative stereotypes.It should be a collaborative efforts of all the previously mentioned platforms and successful British entertainers to make sure it does not get used to extort the people for their talents. For this type of program to thrive there has to be prevention of external people from outside the culture getting involved as they would only care for the financial benefits. The disadvantages of a station like this is at first it would polarise or spilt public opinion and there will be allegations  thrown into the woodwork which will be outrageous but the most important thing is to believe in the idea and for everybody involved to love/enjoy  the culture.

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