What, those multi-culti panels of talking heads – culled together only because a black man is running for president – on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC aren't enough to satiate the African-American community's appetite for news?

Actually, no.

The cable nets still don't feature a single non-white primetime show host, and American Morning's Nepalese Kiran Chetry might as well represent the industry's non-white A.M. line up all by herself. (Ahem.)

So the idea that there's a gaping void in 24-hour coverage isn't so shocking, nor that former Oklahoma Republican congressman J.C. Watts plans to fill it. The tentatively titled Black Television News Channel has already inked a deal with Comcast for carriage, with more contracts in the works. [NYP]

And if BTNC can accomplish one thing and one thing only, let it be offering hat hooks for the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and finding their replacements.