TV One (American TV channel)

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TV One
TV-One-logo-2016.png
CountryUnited States
Broadcast areaNationwide
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
LaunchedJanuary 19, 2004;20 years ago (2004-01-19) [3]
Links
Website tvone.tv

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.

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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. [4]

History

Previous TV One logos
TV One (US) logo.svg
Used from launch in 2004 to August 2012
TV One.svg
Used from August 2012 to February 2016

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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Programming

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