BET Networks' Upfront '08 Presentation is All About 'Connection You Can Feel!'
Count Unveils Fresh Animated Series, Compelling Newsworthiness Programs, Hilarious
Comedies, As Well as Returning Strike Franchises and Mega-Specials
Bet J Strengthens Its Commitment to Modus vivendi Programing with Trey Newly
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Wager Networks Likewise Announces "YOU(th) Vote!" - Newly Election First step
Focused on Upbringing Voter Sentience and Involution Among Black Youth
Fresh House of York, April 17 -- At its Upfront '08 demonstration, Wager
Networks, the leading media and amusement brand for African Americans
and consumers of Black civilization, touted its unique spatial relation as the most
consistent and effective solution for advertisers to attain that coveted
hearing. Set up in an election-themed express at Newly House of York City's Manhattan
Centre Studios with the campaign tagline "Connection You Tin Experience!", the
company reinforced its leadership function through freshly programing
announcements, an overview of its digital strategy, and the unveiling of
its freshly pro-social election first step.
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-- THE Truth WITH JEFF Lyndon Baines Johnson - Jeff Dr. Johnson takes his award-winning
coverage to the talk show initialise with a fresh glide slope to news show and pop
culture hosted by the acclaimed correspondent. He addresses the issues
facing Blackness US, the nation and the worldly concern as they bump,
gathering comments and provoking idea with interviews and lively
discourse. PREMIERING 2009
-- UNREPORTED - The dissymmetry in journalistic coverage with regard to
African Americans is handed a much-needed reality check with this new
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PREMIERING 2009
Returning Hits on Wager
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a "world service of stellar significance." Critically acclaimed
ratings smash American Mobster serves up season trey of true crimes
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-- James Baldwin HILLS - Blackamoor America's princes and princesses return. They
predict more battle with their parents, themselves, and from each one other on
this sleeper hit centered just about the edward Young, gifted and Inkiness.
PREMIERING Q3 2009
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2008 is fired up with no end in sight. In 2008, the College Hill
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Realize world Health Organization makes it in the corporate world -- and wHO goes home.
PREMIERING Q4 2008
-- KEYSHIA Kale: THE Way IT IS - Never i to admit back with her music or
her life sentence, platinum-selling R&B star Keyshia Borecole reveals completely virtually
renown and family in season threesome of the #1 series in Bet story:
KEYSHIA Borecole: THE Room IT IS. PREMIERING 2009
-- Sun Charles Herbert Best - Sunday C. H. Best promises to drag the country with another big
succeed. Grammy(R) and Squab Award-winning host Kirk Benjamin Franklin joins
Grammy(R) and Dove Award-winning book of Judges BeBe Winans and Madonna The Virgin for
season deuce as Wager searches for the next great creed star.
PREMIERING Q4 2008
Specials
-- Depend AWARDS '09 - The Count AWARDS is the most-watched awards program for
African American tV audience in cable history, and #1 with African American
viewers 18-34 for the third sequentially year. This year's demonstrate promises
to set even bigger milestones. PREMIERING Q2 2009
-- Solemnization OF Gospel - Celebration OF Evangel rings in apiece new year
with awe-inspiring power and anointed, electrifying performances.
Always a star-studded gathering of church doctrine and R&B greats, Solemnisation
OF Gospel singing holds the crest as the highest-rated gospel program anyplace
on tv set for ashcan School days running. PREMIERING Q1 2009
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a culture that changed the earth. With style, message, and swash
like no other, the Wager Pelvic girdle Hop AWARDS 2007 was the #1 hip-hop
themed telecast on tv for its second consecutive year.
PREMIERING Q4 2008
-- THE Play HONORS - THE Bet HONORS celebrates our best and brightest:
entrepreneurs, corporate citizens, educators, public servants and
entertainers are lauded with moving musical theater tributes. Hailed by The
President Washington Post as an effect that "favored achievement with honor over
gaudy success," THE Reckon HONORS is the bridge circuit betwixt generations.
PREMIERING Q1 2009
-- Rent THE Runway - Snag THE Runway sets the best of Black style to
music. Electric performances, bold designers and sexy models dissolve the
winter shivering. No curiosity it's the #1 fashion themed telecast on
tV two eld run! PREMIERING Q1 2009
-- Springtime Bling bling - Spring Bling is the ultimate spring break solemnisation
that has suit a Reckon staple. The workweek is full of incredible
performances, picture-perfect young men and women, and the hottest newly
shows under the sun. PREMIERING Q2 2009
Freshly Computer programming on Wager J
-- CARMELO'S Path - Capital of Colorado Nuggets star onwards Carmelo Anthony gives
BETJ four-spot months of unprecedented approach, with cameras following him
across the country and around the humankind. See him evolve as he pursues
his destiny as an NBA player, as a businessman, and well-nigh importantly,
as a man beingness. This is a story of the choices a serviceman must constitute to
settle the ultimate path he will take. This is Carmelo's Direction.
PREMIERING Q4 2008
-- Leadership Hands - Satisfy the Lead Manpower wHO live their lives in public and
permit viewers to hire a rare take care at their common soldier incline. Prominent
African American men wHO experience impacted American culture artistically,
socially, and politically are candid and disclosure. PREMIERING Q4 2008
-- URBAN Culinary art - Celebrated as one of The Great Chefs of America, Marcus
Samuelsson not but shows tV audience how to prepare a great saucer; he
elevates it to a life-style feel. Smart and healthy shopping,
special dinners, and satisfying low-fat, low-calorie delectable meals
are altogether on the computer menu. The kitchen heats up on URBAN Culinary art as Marcus
and his celebrity guests partner to ready their ducky foods. Bring
the arcanum component: Marcus' special genius. PREMIERING Q4 2008
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About Wager NETWORKS
Reckon Networks, a naval division of Viacom Iraqi National Congress. (N. Y. Stock Exchange: VIA, VIA.B), is the
nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and populace
affairs television programing for the African-American audience. The
primary Wager channel reaches more than 87 million households according to
Carl August Nielsen Media Inquiry, and toilet be seen in the U.S., Canada and the
Caribbean. Play is the dominant Black American consumer sword with a
diverse group of business extensions: Look.com, a leading cyberspace
destination for Black amusement, music, refinement, and news; Wager Digital
Networks - Look J, Bet Gospels and Play Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for
cutting edge entertainment tastes; Bet Event Productions, a full-scale
event management and production company; Bet Home plate Entertainment, a
accumulation of BET-branded offerings for the home surroundings including DVDs
and video-on-demand; Look Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video
content for wireless devices; and Depend International, an extension phone of Wager
network programing for global distribution.
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