TV One is an

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owned by

Urban One Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based American media conglomerate. Founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, the company primarily operates media properties targeting African Americans. It is the largest African-American- ...

, having acquired

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's stake in the TV channel in 2015. Headquartered in Silver Spring,

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, TV One's programming targets

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adults with a broad mixture of original lifestyle and entertainment-oriented series, documentaries, films, music performances and reruns of

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s from the 1970s through the 2000s. 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.

History

TV One launched on January 19, 2004, on

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, as a competitor to the longer-established

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.Felicia R. Lee
"A Network for Blacks With Sense of Mission,"
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'', December 11, 2007. At the time of its launch, the channel was in approximately 2.2 million homes in 16 markets. On July 7, 2008, the channel's president and CEO Johnathan Rodgers announced that TV One would provide extensive coverage of the

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that August. In 2011, TV One's original co-owner

acquired

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, effectively integrating TV One and the other Comcast Entertainment Group channels into NBCUniversal's portfolio. 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." 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 Roland Sebastian Martin (born November 14, 1968) is an American journalist. He was a commentator for TV One, the host of ''News One Now'', and ''Washington on Watch With Roland S. Martin''. He was also a CNN contributor, appearing on a variety ...

. The program, ''News One Now'', premiered on November 4, 2013. In December 2014, Brad Siegel was hired as president of TV One. Siegel was formerly president of Turner Entertainment Networks, and vice chairman of

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, which he co-founded in 2004. In March 2015, Radio One announced a deal to buy out Comcast's 47.9% share of TV One for $550 million. In February 2016, TV One updated their logo again, along with a new slogan: "Represent."

Membership and affiliations

* Associate member of the Caribbean Cable & Telecommunications Association, Inc. - CCTA

Programming

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* {{Urban One Urban One Former Comcast subsidiaries Television networks in the United States Television channels and stations established in 2004 African-American television African-American television networks

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