Bounce TV is a United States television network airing on digital terrestrial television stations. Promoted as "the first 24/7 digital multicast broadcast network created exclusively for African Americans," Bounce TV launched on September 26, 2011 and features programming geared toward blacks in the 25-54 age range.

Bounce TV (its name signifies a network that is "going somewhere with energy") features programming geared toward an African American audience older than the age group primarily targeted by the Viacom-owned cable network BET. Bounce's programming includes content gained via acquisition and licensing agreements with such sources as NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Television, Codeblack Entertainment, and Image Entertainment.

Though Bounce TV's schedule concentrates mainly on a mix of movies and reruns of TV series (including Soul Train, Judge Hatchett, Backstage Pass, and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), original content is also featured, including broadcasts of football and basketball games from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (a league that includes several historically black colleges and universities) that are produced by Urban Sports Entertainment Group (the first such broadcast being a Bowie State/Virginia Union football game on September 28, 2011). Future programming plans include inspirational programming, as well as original documentaries and specials, including the broadcast TV premiere of the documentary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective on January 16, 2012, the Martin Luther King Day holiday.

Bounce or The Bounce may refer to:

Kandi Burruss (born May 17, 1976), better known by her stage names Kandi or Kandi Girl, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, actress, record producer, and television personality. She is also a former member of the group Xscape from Atlanta.

Kandi was born on May 17, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia to a single mother, Joyce Jones^{[citation needed]}. Kandi has stated she was definitely a daddy's girl before her father left the family when Kandi was 4. Kandi was very close to her brother Patrick, who was older by 7 1/2 years and later died in a car accident when Kandi was a young teenager. Her first major appearance, on BET's Teen Summit, introduced her to the public. Kandi Attended Tri- Cities High School In East Point GA.

After the disbanding of Xscape, Burruss began to focus on production and songwriting. In 1999, Burruss teamed with bandmate Tameka "Tiny" Cottle to score the international number one hit "No Scrubs" for TLC. The single received a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, MTV Video Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Soul Train Music Award. That same year, Burruss scored a hit for Destiny's Child on their second album, "The Writing's on the Wall". "Bills, Bills, Bills", also topped the Billboard "Hot 100" chart & was followed by their second single "Bug a Boo", also penned by Burruss. Kandi would go on to work with then newcomer Pink by penning her debut single "There You Go" off Pink's debut album "Can't Take Me Home".

Rahman K. Johnson (born May 26, 1976, in Orange Park, Florida) is a local television & radio personality and former Group 5 At Large Representative for the Duval County Soil and Water Conservation District.

With his election to the Duval County Soil and Water Conservation District in 1999, Johnson became the youngest elected official in Florida at the time. There was some controversy surrounding an unapproved cellular phone, which was billed through the city. After much debate, it was eventually settled with Johnson agreeing to pay the $800 bill. In August 2000 Johnson was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In January 2001 Ebony magazine named Johnson one of "30 Young [Black] Leaders under 30" nationally. In 2002 Johnson campaigned first for the Jacksonville City Council, then for state representative, but was defeated in the September 2002 Democratic primary.

Johnson has served as an on-air radio personality in Jacksonville for WJBT 92.7, WSOL V101.5, and WXQL 105.7. He also served as a host for several shows on the local cable station (Teen Cultural Perspective, The Video Zone). He appeared on an episode (#20) of the action/adventure series Sheena in 2001. In January 2003 he appeared in a regional theatre production of Miss Evers' Boys in Jacksonville. He was the host of SPLAT, a Nickelodeon show which aired 2004-5.

Sherman Alexander Hemsley (born February 1, 1938) is an American actor, most famous for his role as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons, and as Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen. He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield, on the Jim Henson sitcom Dinosaurs.

Hemsley was born and raised in South Philadelphia by his mother, who was a factory worker. He dropped out of school and joined the Air Force, where he served for four years. On leaving the Air Force, he returned to Philadelphia where he worked for the Post Office during the day while attending acting school at night. He then moved to New York, continuing to work for the Post Office during the day while working as an actor at night. He starred as the character Gitlow in the early 1970s Broadway play Purlie.

Sherman Hemsley performed with local groups in Philadelphia before moving to New York to study with Lloyd Richards at the Negro Ensemble Company. Shortly after, he joined Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Company appearing in these productions; "But Never Jam Today", "The Lottery", "Old Judge Mose is Dead", "Moon On A Rainbow Shawl", "Step Lively Boys", "Croesus" and "The Witch". He made his Broadway debut in Purlie and toured with the show for a year. In the summer of 1972 he joined the Vinnette Carroll musical "Sorry, I Cant Cope" ensemble in Toronto, followed a month later in the American Conservatory Theatre production at the Geary Theatre. In this production with arrangement with Edward Padula & Arch Lusterg with music and lyrics by Micki Grant had Hemsley in Act I performing the solo "Lookin' Over From Your Side" and in Act II "Sermon."