By: Marc Morial, President & Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League Americans from every walk of life use over-the-air television to access emergency information, weather, sports broadcasts and entertainment programs. Out of 30.6 million households across the country that rely on broadcast television, nearly 4.6 million are African American homes. In many markets with large African American communities, a substantially higher percent of African American homes exclusively receive television over-the-air (via an antenna, or in some cases, an HD converter box), as compared to other households in the same market. For example, in Detroit, 15 percent of households rely on
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