Ed Gordon Sits Down With Condoleezza Rice for One-on-One Interview Sunday, October 17

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, October 17 at 12:00 p.m.* celebrated journalist Ed Gordon goes beyond the headlines with WEEKLY WITH ED GORDON featuring the highly anticipated one-on-one interview with Condoleezza Rice. Ahead of the release of her memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, Ed Gordon sits down with the former National Security Advisor turned Secretary of State to discuss her journey growing up in the segregated south that later led to holding high level positions in one of the most talked about administration's in the White House. Later, Ed engages in a roundtable discussion on hot topics from politics to celebrities with Susan Taylor, CEO of National Cares Mentoring Movement; CNN's Soledad O'Brien; and former press secretary and chief spokesman for the State of New Jersey Anthony Coley.

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WEEKLY WITH ED GORDON will provide a platform for BET to engage the most prolific thinkers, news makers and lawmakers on a weekly basis and also serve as a forum to focus on local and national solutions to issues affecting African American communities. For more information, please check out http://www.bet.com/weekly.

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BET Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks - BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides video, entertainment, news, ringtones and more to wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.

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