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Robert L. Johnson at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television; Appearances on C-SPAN; How I Built This - Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson; Interview with Robert Johnson, president and founder of BET, from KUT's In Black America series on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, April 29, 1986
Founder: Robert L. Johnson: Headquarters: Washington, D.C., U.S. ... but was eventually placed under BET Networks. In 2005, Robert Johnson retired as CEO, and was ...
After stepping down as a lobbyist for the cable industry, Freeport, Illinois native Robert L. Johnson decided to launch his own cable television network. Johnson acquired a loan for $15,000 (equivalent to $55,648 in 2023) and a $500,000 (equivalent to $1,854,921 in 2023) investment from media executive John Malone to start the network. [3]
Black Entertainment Television Founder Robert Johnson joins Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers to break down his call for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery.
Johnson, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $550 million, also partnered with the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. to create a $30 million development fund for small and midsize businesses ...
Here's a Black history fact: BET Founder Robert L. Johnson created a litany of Black millionaires by selling BET. Bob Johnson brought the whole table to his people! "Everybody started at the ...
Robert L. Johnson founded The RLJ Companies in 2002 in Bethesda, Maryland. [7] [8] Johnson serves as chairman of the company. [4] Previous to founding The RLJ Companies, Johnson owned BET, which he sold to Viacom in 2001. [12] He remained on at BET as its CEO through 2006. [4] In 2001, Johnson and Tom Baltimore started RLJ Lodging Trust with ...
During that time, he got to know Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET). Eventually, Johnson hired Mills to work at BET. He credited Johnson with teaching him how to operate a business, calling his time with Johnson the "Bob Johnson School of Entrepreneurship". [1] Mills has a 20 year history of working at Viacom ...