Country | United States |
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Broadcast area | Nationwide |
Headquarters | Silver Spring, Maryland |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format |
HDTV
1080i (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Urban One [1] [2] |
Sister channels | Cleo TV |
History | |
Launched | January 19, 2004[3] |
Links | |
Website |
tvone |
TV One is an American basic cable television channel owned by Urban One, having acquired Comcast's stake in the TV channel in 2015. [1] [2] Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, TV One's programming targets African American adults with a broad mixture of original lifestyle and entertainment-oriented series, documentaries, films, music performances and reruns of sitcoms from the 1970s through the 2000s.
As of November 2023 [update], TV One is available to approximately 43,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2016 peak of 60,000,000 households. [4]
TV One launched on January 19, 2004, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a competitor to the longer-established BET. [5] At the time of its launch, the channel was in approximately 2.2 million homes in 16 markets. [5] On July 7, 2008, the channel's president and CEO Johnathan Rodgers announced that TV One would provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention that August. [6] 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. [7]
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." [8] 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. [9] The program, News One Now, premiered on November 4, 2013. [10]
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. [11] [12]
In March 2015, Radio One announced a deal to buy out Comcast's 47.9% share of TV One for $550 million. [13] [1] [2]
In February 2016, TV One updated their logo again, along with a new slogan: "Represent."
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Country | United States |
---|---|
Broadcast area | Nationwide |
Headquarters | Silver Spring, Maryland |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format |
HDTV
1080i (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Urban One [1] [2] |
Sister channels | Cleo TV |
History | |
Launched | January 19, 2004[3] |
Links | |
Website |
tvone |
TV One is an American basic cable television channel owned by Urban One, having acquired Comcast's stake in the TV channel in 2015. [1] [2] Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, TV One's programming targets African American adults with a broad mixture of original lifestyle and entertainment-oriented series, documentaries, films, music performances and reruns of sitcoms from the 1970s through the 2000s.
As of November 2023 [update], TV One is available to approximately 43,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2016 peak of 60,000,000 households. [4]
TV One launched on January 19, 2004, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a competitor to the longer-established BET. [5] At the time of its launch, the channel was in approximately 2.2 million homes in 16 markets. [5] On July 7, 2008, the channel's president and CEO Johnathan Rodgers announced that TV One would provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention that August. [6] 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. [7]
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." [8] 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. [9] The program, News One Now, premiered on November 4, 2013. [10]
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. [11] [12]
In March 2015, Radio One announced a deal to buy out Comcast's 47.9% share of TV One for $550 million. [13] [1] [2]
In February 2016, TV One updated their logo again, along with a new slogan: "Represent."
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