Debra Lee

Debra Lee
One of the most powerful women in entertainment, she served as Chairman and CEO of BET and also created the sister network CENTRIC.
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 August 1955
CityColumbia, SC
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BET.com is designed to be the pre-eminent African-American portal, ... This will not affect their future at all.
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Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.
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Everybody wanted to help, we figure this is the best way for us to get everyone together and try to raise as much money as we could.
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When I went to BET, I was so excited about working for a black-owned company and a company that was in the media business that serves the black community. One thing Harvard Law does is teach you that you can change the world, and I knew I wanted to do that, it was just a question of how.
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We probably lost some viewers who wanted to go check it out. It was only an hour and it was really targeted to a different audience.
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A la carte is the beginning of the end for niche cable programming.
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I was working on all kinds of projects. Every six months we were starting something new.