BET Soul

BET Soul is an American pay television network that first launched on August 1, 1998, and is currently owned by Paramount Skydance Corporation's BET Media Group. The channel showcases Caribbean, African, R&B, funk, soul, neo soul, hip hop, jazz and Motown music in various decades from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Soul was originally a commercial-free service, along with sister channel VH1 Smooth, and part of the "MTV Digital Suite" of digital cable channels. The first video shown on the channel was "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire.
On December 28, 2015, VH1 Soul transferred to BET Networks and subsequently rebranded as BET Soul, becoming a sister channel to BET. The move was part of a series of programming and management shifts within then-parent company Viacom. In 2019, the legacy assets of Viacom and CBS Corporation reunited in a merger between the two companies that formed ViacomCBS.
On November 9, 2022, oversight of VH1 would transfer to BET Media Group. The move reunited two networks, while also splitting them from MTV and its other formerly-branded sibling channels.