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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
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
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 ...
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]
Robert L. Johnson III was born on November 29, 1958 in Natchez, Mississippi. [1] When he was young, Johnson would help his father, who was a bricklayer and cattle rancher, with work. Johnson's mother was a school teacher, later retiring as an assistant superintendent. [2]
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Robert Alex Johnson (May 26, 1921 – September 12, 2018) was an American Jungian analyst and author. [1] His books have sold more than 3 million copies. [2]
Robert Livingston Johnson (March 25, 1894 – January 16, 1966) was Temple University's third president (1941 to 1959) [1] and a former vice president of Time Inc. [2]