Via: defendernetwork.com
Johnathan Rodgers will retire this summer as president-CEO of TV One, the network he helped found in 2004. With Radio One and Comcast as part owners, the network was profitable after five years and is now in 53 million homes.
Rodgers will end a lengthy career that included launching multiple networks at Discovery Communications, including Animal Planet, and flipping The Learning Channel into TLC. He joined Discovery in 1996 as president of its U.S. networks group and was there prior to devising the plans for TV One.
Rodgers was also an executive producer at CBS News and ran the CBS Television Stations group.
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