BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.
Radio One is also expanding into cable, starting TV One, a black-oriented channel in January--teamed with powerhouse Comcast.
As the operators obliged, the new channel generated enormous excitement in black America just as hip-hop culture, with its swaggering multimillionaire entertainers and athletes, was emerging.
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Johnson may be known for the low-budget comedy routines and booty-shaking music videos that drove the success of BET, the cable channel he founded and that turned him into America's first black billionaire in 2001.
Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands.
To sign up cable operators and undercut the perception that the new channel would appeal only to blacks, Johnson shed the original name--Black Entertainment Television--calling it simply BET.
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