OAKLAND — Charles “Chuck” Edward Johnson, founder of Soul Beat Television, was remembered during an emotional memorial service in East Oakland on Mon-day as a visionary who cared about common folk.

Soul Beat TV was never very polished, and the Oakland cable station's cash-flow problems were a fact even casual viewers couldn't miss. The commercials often resembled "Saturday Night Live" skits, ...

OAKLAND — Chuck Johnson, the unconventional and pioneering broadcaster who owned Oakland’s Soul Beat Television for 25 years, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 65. On Monday, Johnson was taken to a U.S.

If you lived in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s, chances are you turned on your television and witnessed history in the making—even if it was 3am and you’d just switched the channel to a call-in show ...

OAKLAND (BCN) -- Bay Area residents can take a step back in time Friday evening to celebrate Soul Beat Day in Oakland at an event honoring Soul Beat, the nation's first Black-owned cable TV network.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland's Soul Beat, the first Black-owned television network, is once again having its annual summer party this Saturday. For a quarter-century (1978-2003), Soul Beat was Oakland’s ...