By Jake Kanter Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group division Entertainment Studios is to launch seven of its networks in the Middle East on Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company’s Du platform. The deal was brokered by SAWA Rights Management. It is part of an overall arrangement that will...
Summer Series 2020 [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=rgaqgNbrRho&feature=emb_title[/embed] While it's clear that COVID-19 does not discriminate, images and headlines make it equally clear that our systems and institutions do. The Milken Institute is committed to prioritizing and listening to Black Americans, who have been oppressed and marginalized by structural racism. We...
By Seth Abramovitch The comic turned mogul has played the long game since he was a kid, acquiring assets like The Weather Channel and taking a racial equality dispute with Comcast all the way to the Supreme Court: "I'd love to own CNN. … And I...
By Oriana Schwindt When Byron Allen's Allen Media Group bought The Weather Channel for $300 million in March 2018, all eyes were suddenly on the comedian turned media mogul. But Allen's Entertainment Studios had been ramping up programming and distribution for over a decade for the suite...
Byron passionately discussed the impact of systemic injustice in the broadcast industry and what his company is doing to trail-blaze lasting change. [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VlfTzi7Oo&feature=youtu.be[/embed]...
Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 11am Click here to watch Byron Allen discuss his op-ed "Black America speaks. America should listen." on MSNBC. ...
CUP (Council of Urban Professionals) Conversations: "Visionary Leadership - Reimagining America" with Melissa Fenton, Marcos Torres and Byron Allen [embed]http://player.vimeo.com/video/432633970[/embed] ...
After a years-long legal fight against alleged racial bias, the media mogul has struck a deal with the cable giant By Alex Ben Block For years, Byron Allen has waged a kamikaze crusade against Comcast and Charter, which together control close to 60 percent of the cable...
Cablefax Daily | Tuesday - June 16, 2020 | VIEW FULL ISSUE HERE Maine Line: Cable has Friends in A La Carte Case The Motion Picture Association and the Washington Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm and policy center, are backing cable in its quest...
Deal ends contentious battle between two companies By R. Thomas Umstead Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios and Comcast on Thursday reached a content carriage agreement, ending a long, legal dispute that ended up at the Supreme Court. According to the deal, Comcast extends its carriage agreement for The Weather...
