"Black Entertainment Television" is also owned by Viacom. Doesn't make much difference though, all broadcast networks are filth.
Do you know how to use a search engine or are you just a shill? In either case, I took 30 seconds of my precious time to spoonfeed you this: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/mark-malloch-brown
It was probably too late for them to back out at that point. They start cheating during the early voting period.