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	Podcast:		How I Built This with Guy Raz
	Episode:		Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:42:08
	Publish Date:		2017-12-14 05:26:00
	Description:		In 1979, Robert Johnson was a lobbyist for the burgeoning cable industry. That's when he got an idea for a channel called Black Entertainment Television. He started small, just a few hours of programming a week. But by the 1990s BET had become a cultural touchstone. In 2001, he sold BET to Viacom for $2.3 billion, making him the first African-American billionaire in US history. Recorded live in Washington, D.C.
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