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* Byron Allen gave an overview of the content that his Allen Media Group Entertainment Studios is serving up during a presentation at the Television Critics Association panel on Feb 16. The company’s expanding portfolio includes The Weather Channel, Cars.TV, Comedy.TV and genres related to entertainment to travel and pets. We previously reported, in August, […]

Getty * Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has reached a settlement in his $10 billion racial-discrimination lawsuit against Charter Communications.  Both parties put out a joint statement announcing the deal.  “Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks has resolved and withdrawn the lawsuit against Charter Communications.”  Allen reached a deal last year to end his lawsuit against Comcast […]

*Media mogul Byron Allen has fired off letters of intent to major ad brands in which he warns that he will take legal action against them if they don’t support Black-owned media.  Allen is calling on ad agencies to allocate a minimum of 2% of their budgets to Black-owned media or face legal action.  Allen […]

Princell Hair – via Allen Media Group * Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group has announced the hiring of Princell Hair as President of Allen Media Broadcasting – the broadcast television station division consisting of 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 television markets nationwide. Hair will also hold the title of Executive Vice […]

* Byron Allen is known for being the CEO of Entertainment Studios as well as a critic of the Rev. Al Sharpton. But from an interview he gave to CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Allen’s credibility may have taken a big hit. According to Mediate.com, Allen passed up a golden chance to go in on Sharpton regarding […]

Byron Allen at the 2018 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit (Black Enterprise) *Bryon Allen is coming for CNN, as he has made clear his plans to buy the network one day.  “I’m close to the same age when Rupert Murdoch came here to America,” Allen told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published July 9. […]

Byron Allen speaks onstage as Byron Allen and theGrio celebrate Gayle King at their Washington D.C. Gala after The White House Correspondents Dinner at National Museum Of African American History & Culture on April 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Byron Allen, Allen Media Group) *A second lawsuit has […]

[…] when it aired last week, the Rev. Al Sharpton got more than public recognition at theGrio’s second annual Grio Awards. as a years-long beef with media mogul Byron Allen is now in the past. The civil rights icon received the 2023 Justice Icon Award at the event, via the nationally televised “Byron Allen Presents theGrio […]

Byron Allen – The Talk *Byron Allen has submitted a $30 billion offer to buy all of Paramount Global’s outstanding stock, existing debt, and equity, Allen Media Group said in a statement on Tuesday. Bloomberg News first reported that Allen made a $14.3 billion offer to buy Paramount Global’s outstanding shares. “Mr. Byron Allen […]

Byron Allen at the 2018 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit (Black Enterprise) *A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed Byron Allen’s $100 million lawsuit against McDonald’s, citing anti-SLAPP laws in California. Allen filed a lawsuit against the fast-food giant last May, claiming McDonald’s failed to honor a pledge to increase ad spending with Black-owned media. […]

Byron Allen / Getty (CNN) — Alarm bells are going off at ABC News because of Byron Allen? Well, kinda. Here’s what we know. The Disney-owned newsroom was jolted on Thursday after a report suggested that the outlet could soon be expelled from the Magic Kingdom. Bloomberg’s Christopher Palmeri and Thomas Buckley reported that […]

* Byron Allen’s Allen Media Broadcasting, a division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, is acquiring Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV from SJL Broadcasting for $30 million.  The media mogul plans to spend another $10 billion over the next two years to buy more network affiliates, per Yahoo.  The acquisition includes KITV’s satellite station and translators, […]

Byron Allen *In the fall, CBS will air “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” for a limited time during the SAG/WGA strikes — and some folks are not happy about that. As Deadline reports, the show will air nightly beginning tonight,  September 18 from 12:37-1:37 AM, ET/PT. In the comments of the outlet’s report, one […]

* Byron Allen  has beef with Comcast and it’s not cheap. The entertainment mogul via his Entertainment Studios production company has joined the National Association of African-American Owned Media (NAAAOM), in filing a $20 billion discrimination lawsuit against Comcast, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Time Warner Cable and various civil rights groups that include the NAACP […]

Byron Allen / Getty *General Motors canceled a virtual meeting scheduled for Thursday between CEO Mary Barra and several Black-owned media executives who called her out in an ad this week. As EURweb.com previously reported, Barra has agreed to meet with the group after Byron Allen, who is the founder, chairman, and chief executive […]