Company · Media · Film & TV · founded 1999
Black Family Channel
American cable network aimed at African-American audiences, launched in 1999 as MBC Network and renamed in 2004. Robert Townsend developed its original programming. It ceased operating as a channel in April 2007.
Of the 1 person here linked to Black Family Channel, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Black Family Channel
Executive Past
Role
President and chief executive officer of production, 2004–2007
Source
· high confidence. The article documents the title. The years come from the network's Wikipedia page (renamed Black Family Channel in October 2004, ceased as a channel in April 2007); the same page calls him programming director.
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Robert Townsend
Actor, director, and writer; self-financed "Hollywood Shuffle" (1987)
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