Robert Johnson(罗伯特·约翰逊)是美国的一位企业家、媒体大亨、慈善家及投资者。他出生于1946 年,是美国黑人娱乐电视网(BET)的创始人,也是第一位黑人亿万富翁、纽约证券交易所第一家黑人控股公司的创始人、大型球队的第一位黑人老板。2001 年他以 30 亿美元的价格将 BET 出售给维亚康姆公司后,成立了投资公司 RLJ...
Timeline: Robert Johnson and BET
Robert L. Johnson is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the BET channel and as the country’s first African American billionaire.
Johnson, 74, became the first black billionaire in 2001 when he sold BET to Viacom. Soon after, he started the investment firm,The RLJ Cos. Johnson called reparations the “affirmative action program of all time,” saying it would signal that white Americans acknowledge “damages that are owe...
“The idea of BET was a spin-off of what John Johnson was doing,” Johnson,the founder and chairman ofThe RLJ Cos.,told the audience. “He had his stories in print, it was nationally distributed, but through a magazine, nobody was doing it in video and certainly no one...
Robert L. "Bob" Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American businessman and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), and is also its former chairman and chief executive officer. Johnson is currently chairman and founder of RLJ Development and former majority owner of the Charlotte ...
Johnson is the founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, a business network that owns or holds interests in businesses operating across multiple industries. Prior to forming The RLJ Companies, Johnson was the founder and chairman of BET, the nation’s first black-owned cable television network....
In 2001 Johnson sold BET to Viacom. The deal was worth $3 billion and required that Johnson remain CEO for five more years. This move made Johnson the first African American billionaire in the United States. After selling BET, Johnson formed the RLJ Companies, where he began new ventures. ...
Most Our Stories features, aimed by BET founder Johnson for a black audience, will be theatrically distributed through the Weinstein Co.'s genre armDimensionFilms and released on DVD via the company's Genius Products partnership. 12/7/2007 ...
If Nirvana and Robert Johnson are rock's essence for you, so's To Bring You My Love. But if you believe the Beatles and George Clinton had more to say in the end, this could be the first PJ album you adore as well as admire. It's a question of whether you use music to face ...