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Showing posts with label BET. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Paramount Global Looking To Shutter Both BET And MTV Base Africa In Major Restructure

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Paramount Global‘s Africa offices may close, local channels may be shuttered, and staffers’ roles could be impacted, company exe...
Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Paramount Global Is In Exclusive Talks To Sell BET For $1.6 Billion

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Paramount Global is in exclusive talks to sell its Black Entertainment Television network to buyers that include BET Chief Execu...
Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Paramount Is Reportedly In Talks To Sell BET For Almost $2 Billion

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For most of 2023, Paramount has been looking to sell BET. Reportedly, earlier this year, Paramount decided that the offers for B...
Sunday, 22 October 2023

Paramount, Home To MTV And Nickelodeon Reportedly Up For Sale or Merger

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Recently, Paramount, the parent company of Nickelodeon and Paramount+, has been looking to sell some of its assets and make cuts...
Wednesday, 21 June 2023

BET's Future As A Linear Channel Up In The Air As Tyler Perry Reportedly Backs Out Of Deal

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Media mogul Tyler Perry refuses to cough up the $3 billion-plus that Paramount is asking in an auction of Black Entertainment Television — a...
Monday, 12 June 2023

Tyler Perry To Take Control Over BET And Likely VH1

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Tyler Perry (Madea, Gone Girl), founder and CEO of Tyler Perry Studios, will take control of BET, The Streamr has learned. The deal comes as...
Monday, 6 March 2023

Paramount Global In Talks With Tyler Perry To Sell Majority Stake In BET

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Paramount Global is mulling the possible sale of a majority stake in BET Media Group, which includes the BET cable network, BET Studios and ...
Friday, 11 November 2022

VH1 Is Making A Comeback On International Shores Through BET

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VH1 started life as a music channel for older demos but gradually shifted towards reality TV, and more recently has targeted the African Ame...
Thursday, 18 August 2022

Roundups #85: Live-Action Pac-Man Movie Is In The Works, BET+ Acquired Broadcasting Rights To South African Drama Series Pulse And Doom Patrol Alongside Titans Expected To Be Cancelled

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Pac-Man to get feature film A live-action film is in development based on the classic arcade game character with an endless appetite, Pac-...
Monday, 16 May 2022

Roundups #54: The Wendy Williams Show Is Reportedly Dead, Fenty Beauty Expands To Africa And Katy Perry Lands The Lead Role In Melody

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Wendy is nowhere in site Wendy Williams insists she's getting her show back despite getting replaced by Sherri Shepherd. It’s hard to s...
Thursday, 10 March 2022

Roundups #29: Viewers On e.tv Can Sigh In Relief As Isono Is NOT Coming For Durban Gen's Head, Noxolo Preps Her Wedding Gown In Qhayiya Phato's Novel That Is Sure To Leave You Spellbound And If You're Looking For A Little Fear Factor And Wipeout Tune Into Kicking And Screaming On eReality

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Isono has got another head Earlier in the week, it was reported that e.tv picked up rights to BET's first local telenovela Isono and wi...
Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Insidus Content Roundups #2: Bel-Air A Reboot Of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air Streaming February 13th On Peacock And Nicktoons Upcoming Series Big Nate Streaming February 17th On Paramount+ Alongside The Fairly OddParents Live-Action Comedy This March

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Ever wondered how Will Smith's life was as a kid now is your chance Bel-Air is an upcoming American drama streaming television series d...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Paramount+ New Series And Movies Coming In 2022 Some Of Which Will Likely Surface Comedy Central, MTV, BET And Nickelodeon

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Paramount+ is still rolling out in more regions and there's no specific timeframe on when viewers will be able to view the content. Here...
Thursday, 9 December 2021

SPI International Expands Its Offering To More Homes In Africa + Several Cancellations On The Cards For These Series On M-Net, SABC And BET + MultiChoice And Televisa Make TLNovelas A Permanent Channel

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" Still making money move", Cardi B SPI/FilmBox and AXIAN Group are pleased to announce a brand-new distribution deal that makes ...
Monday, 4 October 2021

ViacomCBS: Could BET Africa Be On The Chopping Block?

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BET has been available in Africa for nearly a decade offering a range of shows such as Real Husbands Of Hollywood, The Wendy Williams Show, ...
Thursday, 11 June 2020

ViacomCBS Will Be Launching A New Channel Carrying Content From BET And Showtime, Will This Perhaps Get Added On StarSat Or Serve As A Replacement To BET Africa On DStv?

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ViacomCBS is to launch SHO*BET by the end of the year to do that it's taking up Showtime's Showcase channel in the United States. T...