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Mon Dec 21, 2015, 02:32 AM

Dec 2015

To make matters even more cynical, the effort—while in conjunction with the “marketing specialist” at the Atlanta Boys and Girls club—was designed to promote a schlocky, third-rate corporate network called UP TV. A media channel “dedicated to uplifting programming,” it’s owned by $1 billion private equity group, InterMedia Partners. Their senior vice president of marketing, Wendy McCoy, was “amazed” that the poors can be selfless:

UPTV

http://uptv.com/contact/

InterMedia Partners, LP

http://www.intermediaadvisors.com/about-us/

http://www.intermediaadvisors.com/contact-us/

Leo Hindery, Jr. is an American businessman, author, political activist and philanthropist. Hindery is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a New York-based media industry private equity fund

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Hindery#Politics

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