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The year 1948 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1948.
Black Entertainment Television is an American basic cable channel targeting African-American audiences. It is owned by Paramount Global.
Moira Clare Ruby Stuart, is a British presenter and broadcaster. She was the first female newsreader of Caribbean heritage to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981.
Howard Michael Mandel is a Canadian comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel voiced the character Gizmo in the 1984 film Gremlins and the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. In 1987, Mandel starred alongside Amy Steel in the comedy film Walk Like a Man. From 1982 to 1988, Mandel played the rowdy ER intern Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere. He also created, voiced, and starred in the Fox children's cartoon Bobby's World. Additionally, he has been a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent since 2010, and Citytv's Canada's Got Talent since 2022. He hosted the American NBC and later CNBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. In 2022, he began hosting the first season of Netflix's Bullsh*t the Game Show.
Wendy Williams Hunter is an American former broadcaster, media personality, and writer. From 2008 to 2022, she hosted the nationally syndicated television talk show The Wendy Williams Show.
WWJ-TV is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by the CBS television network. Under common ownership with CW affiliate WKBD-TV under the network's CBS News and Stations group, both stations share studios on Eleven Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, while WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park.
Simon Marc Amstell is a British comedian, writer and director. He wrote and directed the films Carnage (2017) and Benjamin (2018). His work on television has included presenting Popworld and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Black Enterprise is a black-owned multimedia company. Since the 1970s, its flagship product Black Enterprise magazine has covered African American businesses with a readership of 3.7 million. The company was founded in 1970 by Earl G. Graves Sr. It publishes in both print and on digital, an annual listing of the largest African-American companies in the country, or "B.E. 100s", first compiled and published in 1973. In 2002 the magazine launched a supplement targeting teens, Teenpreneur. Black Enterprise also has two nationally syndicated television shows, Our World with Black Enterprise and Women of Power.
Garcelle Beauvais is a Haitian-American actress and television personality. She is best known for her starring roles in the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show and the crime drama series NYPD Blue. She also appeared in the films Coming to America (1988) and its sequel (2021), White House Down (2013), and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). In 2020, Beauvais became a main cast member of the reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She also co-hosted the daytime talk show The Real alongside Adrienne Bailon, Loni Love, and Jeannie Mai from 2020 to 2022 for its final two seasons.
College Hill is an American reality television series that followed the lives of students at historically black colleges. It originally aired on BET from 2004 to 2009. It returned as College Hill: Celebrity Edition on June 27, 2022 on BET+.
Earl Gilbert Graves Sr. was an American entrepreneur, publisher, businessman, philanthropist, and advocate of African-American businesses. A graduate of Morgan State University, he was the founder of Black Enterprise magazine and chairman of the media company Earl G. Graves, Ltd. He was the director for Aetna and Executive Board member of the Boy Scouts of America. He was the father of Earl G. Graves Jr.
Daniel Richard McBride is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He starred in the HBO television series Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, also co-creating the former two with frequent collaborator Jody Hill while creating the latter himself. He has appeared in films such as The Foot Fist Way (2006), Hot Rod (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), Up in the Air (2009), Your Highness (2011), This Is the End (2013), and Alien: Covenant (2017). He has done voice acting for Despicable Me (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Hell and Back (2015), The Angry Birds Movie, Sausage Party, The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021).
Earl Gilbert "Butch" Graves Jr. is an American businessman and retired basketball player. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is a Scarsdale High School graduate.
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Edward Lansing Gordon III is an American television journalist known for his association with BET over four different decades. A native of Detroit, Ed Gordon is the son of an Olympic athlete also named Ed Gordon. The younger Gordon was BET's main news anchor from 1988 to 1996 and again from 2000 to 2001 before hosting the interview show BET Tonight from 2001 to 2002 and another interview show, Weekly with Ed Gordon, from 2010 to 2011.
Peacock is an American over-the-top video streaming service owned and operated by Peacock TV, LLC, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. Named after the NBC logo, the service launched on July 15, 2020. The service primarily features series and film content from NBCUniversal studios and other third-party content providers, including television series, films, news, and sports programming. The service is available in a free ad-supported version with limited content, while premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content.
Byron Eugene Lewis Sr. is a retired advertising executive and business owner. Referred to in The New York Times as "the original Black media king," Lewis was instrumental in opening the eyes of major brands like Avon and Mars Candy, as well as the entertainment industry, to the buying power of African American consumers. Widely regarded as a pioneering ad man, Lewis came up with “The Diapers” ad for Lincoln Navigator, a national automotive account aimed for the first time at the urban Black middle class. He has been inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame and has received awards from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA). The Smithsonian National Museum of American History is collecting Lewis's work.
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- ↑ "A gay Kappa wedding: The latest event challenging black America's hyper-masculine arenas". The Washington Post . Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ↑ Murphy, Keith (16 July 2016). "Marc Lamont Hill Talks Donald Trump, Cop Killings, #BLM & Taking VH1 'Live!' With New TV Show". Vibe.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ↑ Blum, Mary (April 8, 2020). "Meet Your (Former) Neighbor: Earl Graves Sr. personified Black Enterprise". Scarsdale News. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ↑ "Black publishing pioneer, Earl Graves, dies at age 85". Aldianews.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ↑ "Gordon Hosts New Series". Detroit Free Press. September 27, 2006. p. 8C.
- ↑ "Marc Lamont Hill Apologizes in Op-ed for Use of Phrase 'Free Palestine From the River to the Sea'". Haaretz. December 3, 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ↑ Obenson, Ambay (25 October 2018). "Megyn Kelly's Firing Won't Change America's Shameful History of Blackface on Film and TV — Analysis". Indiewire.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
