Founder of BET Is Ashamed Of What Debra Lee Has Done to the Brand

Former founder of BET Networks Sheila Johnson dished on how she is ashamed of what the network has become since she sold it:

Don’t even get me started,” says the 60-year-old Johnson, who has since divorced and remarried (charmingly enough, to the Virginia circuit court judge who presided over her divorce). “I don’t watch it. I suggest to my kids [a twentysomething daughter and a college-age son] that they don’t watch it… I’m ashamed of it, if you want to know the truth. It wasn’t always that way. “When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television,” Johnson tells me. “We had public affairs programming. We had news… I had a show called Teen Summit, we had a large variety of programming.

If you all don't recall Sheila and Bob Johnson sold the network for 1.3 billion to Viacom back in 2000. Hasn't been quite the same sense. SMH