Curtis Symonds | The Midday Break Room w/ Tiffany Bacon - 9.17.25

17/09/2025 9 min
Curtis Symonds | The Midday Break Room w/ Tiffany Bacon - 9.17.25

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Curtis Symonds is a pioneering media executive renowned for founding and leading HBCU GO, a streaming network dedicated to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. HBCU GO now reaches up to 95 % of U.S. TV households and 90 % of Black households, offering free, high-quality coverage of beloved HBCU classics and student-athlete performances. HBCU Go and the NFL partner on events like the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic, which is simulcast on both platforms, and the NFL provides initiatives such as the HBCU Combine to give top talents from Historically Black Colleges and Universities a platform to showcase their skills to NFL scouts for potential drafting.

Curtis joins the show to talk about The Significance & Importance of HBCU Go, and the current partnership that the NFL has with HBCU Go to further portray HBCU athletes on a bigger scale.