General Info

BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom, is a cable television network that provides entertainment, music, news and public affairs programming for the African-American audience. The network reaches more than 80 million households according to Nielsen media research and can be seen in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Its most popular programs include 106 & Park, Rap City, Comic View and BET Nightly News. BET is a dominant consumer brand in the urban marketplace with a diverse group of branded businesses that include BET.com, the Number 1 Internet portal for African Americans; BET Digital Networks that includes BET Jazz, BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Event Productions, which specializes in a full range of event production services, including event management, venue selection, talent recruitment, sound, lighting and stage production; and BET Books, the nation's leading publisher of African-American themed romance novels under the Arabesque imprint, which also publishes fiction under the Sepia imprint and fiction and nonfiction under the New Spirit imprint. BET Networks was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.