Tempo Networks, LLC is a pan-Caribbean television channel broadcasting the music and culture of the Caribbean. Programming includes music videos, news, dramas, and documentaries addressing all aspects of Caribbean life. Musical genres broadcast include Reggae, Soca, Dancehall, Ska, Calypso, and Punta rock. Although programming is largely in English, TEMPO seeks to unite the English, Spanish, French, and Dutch cultures of the Caribbean into one Caribbean nation.

TEMPO was first launched by MTV Networks on November 30, 2005 under the ownership of MTV Networks and corporate parent Viacom. In 2007, Caribbean native Frederic Morton, Jr., Deputy General Council at Viacom bought out the channel, moving corporate headquarters to Newark, NJ in 2008.

It was the first network created to bring together the diverse cultures of the Caribbean. It serves additionally the large Caribbean community living outside of the region in the New York city metro area (NY/NJ/CT), Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles, and Houston.

The station reaches over 3,000,000 viewers in the Caribbean via cable. It also streams live right here online 24/7/365.

Frederick Morton, Jr. is the visionary behind Tempo Networks, a dynamic celebration of all things Caribbean. Morton, who is the consummate creative thinker, with a laser beam ability to execute and impeccable credentials to back him up, is emphatic that Tempo can deliver the full scope of Caribbean culture to the entire world.

Born and raised in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands to Nevisian parents, Morton was aware - even as a boy - that the Caribbean held an irresistible magnetism. “Its music, its history, its breathtaking scenery - the place is earth's last Eden!” Morton also knew that someday he would deliver that joy to people everywhere. With characteristic drive, he set about achieving the world-class qualifications that would someday help him realize his dream. A law degree from Rutgers University and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Columbia University were just the beginning. As an attorney at the prestigious New York law firm of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, Morton represented numerous Fortune 500 companies. His stature rose even further when he became Corporate Counsel for Johnson & Johnson and then joined Viacom Inc. where he quickly rose to Chief Litigation Counsel. His mentor was the famed Attorney Johnnie Cochran.

By the time Morton became MTV Networks’ Deputy General Counsel of Business and Legal Affairs; he had amassed a shockingly concentrated amount of high- profile legal experience in under the course of a decade. He’d also maintained his passionate immersion in Caribbean culture. He knew, with an almost prophetic sense, that he would one day be able to combine the two and create a groundbreaking venture.

Indeed he did. With facts, savvy and his background as a native son at the ready, Morton has brought forth a Caribbean Tempo that has permeated the hearts and souls of Caribbean people. “There are millions of Caribbean people in and out of the Caribbean, all around the world, that embody the enduring spirit of the region…..a spirit of an extraordinary people with an extraordinary story ready to be told". He knew Tempo could serve as a dedicated platform to enhance the further development of the Caribbean and its formidable people. “Tempo will be the ultimate platform for the entire Caribbean experience,” says Morton. “Caribbean people have a passion for living which shines through everything they do. Tempo will be the bridge to this culturally rich and trendsetting community.”

As Founder, Chairman & CEO, Morton is at the helm of an astonishingly vast undertaking. But, he says with characteristic assurance of a creatively (almost mystically) driven soul, “the love of God, passion and faith will most certainly clear the way”. This is a man constantly erupting with ideas and too forward- thinking to rest on his already considerable laurels. “I like to say that it's not about eureka moments, it's about a eureka lifetime”….A liftetime he has devoted to the upliftment of the Caribbean.