BET is owned by Paramount Global. I'm pretty sure those are white people. Their target audience is black people.

So maybe you could ask the .... Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television, the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Launched in .... It looks like BET becoming Black-owned again is a dream deferred for now.. Louis Carr, President of Media Sales, at Black Entertainment Television (BET) Networks, is one of the most influential and prominent African Americans..

The network was founded by an African American, Robert Johnson, in the '80s, but in 2003, BET was sold to Viacom, which also owns MTV and VH1..