Less than two weeks after unveiling its ambitious Discovery+ direct-to-consumer play to investors, Discovery Inc said Monday that it has appointed BET founder Robert L. Johnson to its board of directors. The move is effective January 1.The company said today that S. Decker Anstrom, who has...
"The fact that we were first, the fact that we symbolized what Black Americans can do if given an opportunity was the proudest, one of the proudest days of my life in business." Johnson, who is no longer on theForbes billionaire list, took BET private in 1998 and sold it toViacom...
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The billon dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the inside story of Black Entertainment Television. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Pulley, B. (2004). The billion dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the inside story of Black Entertainment Television. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley....
Johnson also made a foray into the restaurant business by opening BET Soundstage and BET on Jazz, which were theme restaurants. In 2001 Johnson made an effort to become the only African American to own a major airline by becoming the owner of D.C. Air. His plans were halted when the U...
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, 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...
In a statement to the B.A.R. about the sale, the executor for the family estate said, “The Carr-Lichtman family has treasured this artwork for over 50 years and now it is time to find a new owner who will cherish this remarkable work of science fiction publishing history for the next...
KGB veteran Col. Nikolai Shvarev tells Moscow Center’s side of the story: At the beginning of the 1990s, his mysterious death became a sensation. And that’s just for starters, after all, 68-year-oldLord Robert Maxwell– owner of one of the largest media empires on the planet; a bil...
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