Senate Bill sb2982

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2982

    By Senator Hill





    1-2362A-03

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing and commending Willie

  3         E. Gary and Major Broadcasting Cable Network.

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  5         WHEREAS, Willie E. Gary, once a migrant farm-worker and

  6  now a renowned attorney, residing in Sewall's Point, Florida,

  7  was educated in the public schools of Okeechobee County,

  8  Florida, before earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in

  9  Business Administration from Shaw University in 1972 and his

10  Juris Doctor Degree from North Carolina Central University in

11  1974, and

12         WHEREAS, Willie E. Gary is principal owner, Chairman of

13  the Board of Directors, and Chief Executive Officer of Major

14  Broadcasting Cable Network, also known as MBC Network,

15  America's first minority-owned and operated 24-hour cable

16  network, which is now available in 24 million homes in over

17  2,500 cities in 47 states, and

18         WHEREAS, the mission of MBC Network is to empower,

19  embrace, and impact urban communities through family

20  programming that presents news and information, Black college

21  sports, children's programming, and dynamic ministries through

22  African-American perspectives, highlighting the positive

23  aspects of urban culture, and

24         WHEREAS, at 7:00 P. M. on April 4, 2003, broadcasting

25  from the Tallahassee studios of Florida's News Channel, MBC

26  Network premiered a one-hour daily news program entitled "MBC

27  Network News" to preview its 24-hour news program "MBC Network

28  News--The Urban Voice," to be launched in 2004, NOW,

29  THEREFORE,

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31  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2982
    1-2362A-03




 1         That the Florida Senate recognizes and commends Willie

 2  E. Gary for outstanding entrepreneurial genius and invaluable

 3  community service in designing and implementing a 24-hour

 4  cable channel to broadcast wholesome family programming,

 5  presenting African-American perspectives and highlighting the

 6  positive aspects of urban culture, and recognizes and commends

 7  the MBC Network on its premier of "MBC Network News."

 8         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution,

 9  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Willie E.

10  Gary and to MBC Network as a tangible token of the sentiments

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