TV One (stylized as TV ON?) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Urban One (formerly Radio One until May 8, 2017), having acquired Comcast's stake in the TV network in 2015. Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, TV One's programming targets African American adults with a broad mix of original lifestyle and entertainment-oriented series, documentaries, movies, concert performances and reruns of sitcoms from the 1970s through the 2000s.
As of February 2015, TV One is available to approximately 57 million pay television households (48.9% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
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History
TV One launched on January 19, 2004, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a competitor to the longer-established Black Entertainment Television. At the time of its launch, the channel was in approximately 2.2 million homes in 16 markets. On July 7, 2008, the network's president and CEO Johnathan Rodgers announced that TV One would provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention that August. In 2011, TV One's original co-owner Comcast acquired NBCUniversal, effectively integrating TV One and the other Comcast Entertainment Group channels into NBCUniversal's portfolio.
In August 2012, TV One updated its on-air look and logo, as part of a plan to "tell stories about how African-American life unfolds and to distinguish it from a growing number of competitors." On July 9, 2013, TV One announced that it would debut its first live one-hour, weekday morning news program that would be hosted by commentator Roland S. Martin. The program, News One Now, premiered on November 4, 2013.
In December 2014, Brad Siegel was hired as president of TV One. Siegel was formerly president of Turner Entertainment Networks, and vice chairman of Up TV, which he co-founded in 2004.
In March 2015, Radio One announced a deal to buy out Comcast's 47.9% share of TV One for $550 million.
In February 2016, TV One updated their logo again, along with a new slogan, "Represent."
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Programming
See also
- ASPiRE - an American digital cable and satellite channel owned by Magic Johnson.
- Black Entertainment Television - an American basic cable and satellite channel apart of the BET Networks, currently owned by Viacom, which launched in 1980 as the first television network devoted to programming targeting the African-American community.
- BET Her - A spinoff digital cable and satellite channel targeting African-American women.
- Bounce TV - an American digital multicast network owned by E. W. Scripps Company.
References
External links
- Official website
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