When I would tell non-African Americans about starting a digital television streaming platform, they would tell me to start a YouTube Channel.  They could not see the significance of a platform dedicated to African Americans. My why for starting a television network that catered to African Americans started in third grade at a summer camp.  I was exposed to television production then.  Fast forward to 1995, I worked for an Internet company in San Antonio, Texas and envisioned doing something with the Internet and television then.  My focus has always been the African American market.  I never really saw or heard stories from an African American perspective and never saw many positive images of African Americans on television, so I have always dreamt for starting a television network to give African Americans a voice and change what we believe about ourselves from decades of listening to someone else’s stories about us.

Instead of complaining about why there were no positive shows about African Americans, I decided to create a platform where I controlled the content, the time length of the shows, and a platform that provided African Americans with a voice and outlet to tell their own stories.  And thus the African American Network was born.

Now we are one of the leading providers of original content for Africans Americans and airs content produced and created by African Americans.

TAAN TV is changing the way African Americans see themselves and is changing the perception of how others see us.  TAAN TV – The African American Network has a Local Feel with a Global Reach.