The Hindi version of Sony Entertainment Television is now available in more than 200, 000 American homes.
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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.
And heavyweights, such as Star, Zee and Sony Entertainment Television, are spending lavishly to build their own Indian entertainment outlets, he notes.
Social media, collectively, gets more of my time today than entertainment television.
Entertainment Television, Girls Next Door, which just signed for season two.
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.
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.
NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks.
And heavyweights, such as Star, Zee and Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) Entertainment Television, are spending lavishly to build their own Indian entertainment outlets, he notes.
The 2012 series final which saw Ashleigh Butler and Pudsey the dog triumph, had a peak audience of 14.5 million making it the highest rated UK entertainment television show to date this year.
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.
Far from the safe world of family entertainment, television has become like the internet - carrying thousands of channels of unregulated programming - which no one is able to monitor or control.
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More and more, we seem to want at least some portion of our television entertainment in pocket.
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"It was working at acceptable levels financially, " NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin told reporters on Sunday.
As president of the CBS Network Television Entertainment Group, Tellem supervised programming, development, production, business affairs and operations.
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They should get out of the business of providing television entertainment.
Silverman will join NBC Universal television president Marc Graboff as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio in an attempt to revive the struggling network.
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Her Oxygen Media is a U.S. multimedia company, aimed primarily at women, that pursues the ever-elusive goal of convergence -- combining the entertainment power of television with the interactivity and specificity of the Internet.
Chase Carey, the boss of Fox Television, came back with another offer: a joint venture between Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids Television.
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