Mogul charges fast-food chain discriminates against Black-owned media By Jon Lafayette A federal court judge in California has reversed a ruling dismissing media mogul Byron Allen’s $10 billion lawsuit charging that McDonald’s discriminated against Black-owned media in buying advertising. In a new order entered Friday (January 21), Judge Fernando Olguin denied McDonald’s motion...
Byron Allen FOUNDER / CHAIRMAN / CEO Allen acquired seven stations from Gray Television for $380 million in April 2021, giving his Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios a total of 23 network affiliates across the U.S. His portfolio also includes 10 24-hour TV networks, including the Weather Channel,...
Allen Media Group expects to build apps faster and add distribution on more devices By Jon Lafayette Byron Allen’s quickly expanding Allen Media Group has made a multi-platform deal with digital giant Google to use the Google Cloud as its data infrastructure and carry The Weather Channel...
Jan 18 (Reuters) - Media entrepreneur Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) struck a multi-year deal with Google Cloud on Tuesday, through which the Alphabet Inc-owned (GOOGL.O) company will provide cloud services to the entertainment firm. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Media companies are increasingly...
By Valerie Complex EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG) and Google today announce a new multi-year and multi-platform strategic partnership to accelerate growth across AMG’s entire portfolio of media and digital properties, providing data-driven and secure technology solutions in service of AMG’s current phase of rapid expansion. Google Cloud will provide...
The new group comprises TV, film, digital and streaming content production and distribution. By Etan Vlessing Byron Allen’s newly launched Allen Media Studios has hired Shaun Williams as chief financial officer. Williams most recently served as CFO at indie Solstice Studios, and before that was head of finance...
By Valerie Complex EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group said Friday that it has hired Shaun Williams to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer of Allen Media Studios. Williams will oversee financial planning, accounting and business analysis for AMG’s newly named production division that encompasses all AMG TV, motion picture, digital and...
Free, ad-supported service features sports, news and entertainment networks By Jon Lafayette The new Allen Media Digital division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, announced the official launch of Sports.TV, a free streaming platform. Soft-launched last month, Sports.TV aggregates sports, news, movies and documentaries from networks and TV stations to...
By Valerie Complex Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group announced that its new Allen Media Digital division is launching SPORTS.TV, a new free-streaming platform. The SPORTS.TV app will act as an aggregator for sports, news, movies, documentaries, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcasting stations for free. The initial line-up...
Busy Byron Allen Wants To Be Big, But Doesn't Want To Be a Unicorn Media mogul aims to build a business that will unite the country By Jon Lafayette Byron Allen is moving fast in a lot of different directions at once. The entertainer -- famously the youngest...
