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Black Entertainment Television

Black Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom. It is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences, with approximately 88,255,000 American households receiving the channel as of February 2006. The channel has offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Black Entertainment Television has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2002 Broadcast. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2012 with an average of 612 views per video. Most common tag: Race Relations.

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    The Courage to Hope

    Shirley Sherrod, former U.S.D.A. Georgia state director of Rural Development, recalls the controversy that ensued after conse…

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    Senator Interview

    BET Ed Gordon interviewed Senator Trent Lott about remarks he made at Senator Thurmond’s birthday party in which he claimed t…

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