Mr. Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television, a cable network he sold to Viacom Inc.
Aiming at Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television, TV One intends to cater to what it sees as underserved 18-to-49-year-old black viewers.
Viacom's other television properties include UPN, Black Entertainment Television and TV Land, all of which have relatively small but growing audiences.
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.
On top of Senator Clinton's comments about Martin Luther King and former President Clinton's fairy tale remark, there was also this remark yesterday from Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, at a Clinton rally.
"I think John sees himself putting money into creating a revolution in the structure of media or high-tech companies, " says Robert Johnson, a Malone partner since 1980 and chairman of BET Holdings, which owns Black Entertainment Television.
David Miller, an analyst with Sutro, says that by the time the money changed hands, Fox Family went for 60% more, as a multiple of operating income, than Viacom paid when it acquired Black Entertainment Television in January.
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.
In a two-part report for The Tavis Smiley Show, producer Roy Hurst explores the roots of blackface minstrelry, and how the legacy of the act still haunts some forms of black popular entertainment today.
Treyarch is an industry-leading game developer, wholly owned by Activision Publishing, Inc. whose previous game Call of Duty: Black Ops set an entertainment launch opening record upon its release in 2010 and continues to be one of the best-selling games of all time, according to NPD and GfK Chart-Track.
Ms. Goff continues on to make some great points about black versus white representation in entertainment vehicles.
FORBES: Why ABC's 'The Bachelor' Racial Discrimination Suit Is Good For America
More exciting and attractive new titles are to be released from third party developers and publishers as well as SCE Worldwide Studios, including Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Entertainment.), Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (Activision, Inc), PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Sony Computer Entertainment), towards the holiday season.
ENGADGET: PlayStation 3 global sales hit 70 million, over 15 million Move controllers sold
For that we declare Jack Black and Steve Martin among the 10 biggest entertainment turkeys of 2011.
Another theory is that black users report more interest in celebrities and entertainment news, and people with heightened interest in those areas are more likely to join Twitter.
FORBES: Twitter Gets Even More Popular With Black Users. Why?
Activision Publishing just announced the first-day sales of its newest hit videogame Call of Duty: Black Ops, saying that it is the biggest entertainment launch in history.
FORBES: Call Of Duty: Black Ops Claims 'Biggest Entertainment Launch In History'
Will Smith was the emcee and the entertainment included performances from Alicia Keys and the Black Eyed Peas.
FORBES: Has Wal-Mart Has Lost Touch With Its Populist Roots?
She's also the first black woman to become a major influence in the world of entertainment, and she rightfully receives loads of praise for it.
People joke that it stands for Bad Entertainment Television, and Aaron McGruder, a young black syndicated cartoonist, lampoons Johnson and BET regularly in his daily comic strip, The Boondocks.
This is grand entertainment, an ensemble comedy with an all-black cast (plus one beleaguered white barber) that's about, of all things, a day at a barbershop on the south side of Chicago.
The sleek black Xbox 720 portrayed in the documents will seemingly be the only entertainment device you'll need.
By some estimates, "Black Ops" had the biggest five-day opening in revenue of any entertainment debut in history.
CNN: Activision CEO: 'Call of Duty' is like Facebook, texting
Upping the ante on its long-standing lineup of home entertainment controllers, its new flagship unit sports a sleek silver and black finish, a 3.5-inch color touchscreen, internet programmability, rechargeable batteries, and a slew of one-touch activity options.
ENGADGET: Logitech's Harmony 1000 Advanced Universal touchscreen remote
He admits Ando's cherished mobile devices "will be like black holes, sucking every electronic function into them, " but he bets digital entertainment will begin in the broadband home.
The ardent All Blacks fan base will be entertainment in itself, as the lint-roller is zapped over the old black jersey and the masses take to the pubs in droves.
Boycotts against VH1, "The Search for a Black Model, " and preview of Jill Scott's new album - here with the freshest in entertainment, we've got Allison Samuels, a correspondent for Newsweek.
应用推荐