EXCLUSIVE, 9:15 AM: Christopher Malone has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. The move comes just two months after the veteran exec joined AMG as EVP, Head of Corporate Development. He remains based in Los Angeles. “I am very excited...
Veteran academic, author, activist and television host Marc Lamont Hill will join AMG’s Black news/entertainment media platform theGrio. Hill will bring his perspectives on culture, politics, race, sports, and education to all of theGrio media platforms, including its television network, free streaming app, theGrio news/entertainment...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is buying the Black News Channel, with plans to revive the bankrupt cable news outlet and significantly grow its distribution footprint. Allen’s company is acquiring “substantially all” of BNC’s assets for $11 million, with a bankruptcy court in Tallahassee, Florida, formally...
Byron Allen already gives people the weather. Now he’s offering the news to go with it. Allen Media Group, the consortium of media companies that includes the Weather Channel, has purchased the assets of the Black News Channel, a Tallahassee, Florida outlet controlled by Jacksonville Jaguars...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is set to acquire Black News Channel out of bankruptcy for $11 million from billionaire Shahid Khan, owner of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars franchise. The announcement from AMG follows an order from the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division of the...
Media mogul and network executive Byron Allen is acquiring Black News Channel LLC out of bankruptcy for $11 million as he seeks to revive a cable news network that provided Black Americans’ perspective on current events before shutting down earlier this year. Mr. Allen’s Allen Media...
UPDATED, 11:26 AM: New courtroom show We the People with Judge Lauren Lakein 95% of U.S. broadcast syndication markets for a fall launch, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios said today. The outlets include multiple CBS and Fox O&Os, along with Nexstar, Tegna, Weigel and Sinclair and other station...
Allen Media Group (AMG) has hired Mike Nemetz to be director of content distribution and partnerships. He is charged with initiating and cultivating multiplatform content distribution and client relationships for AMG divisions Weather Group, Allen Media Networks and Allen Media Digital. Nemetz is based at...
HBCU GO is the leading media provider for the nation’s 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities The free-streaming digital platform HBCU GO has announced two exciting new shows set to debut this week. The lifestyle and sports app is owned by Byron Allen, owner of theGrio and...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group said it hired Phil Peters as VP of ad sales for AMG Global Syndication. Peters, who most recently had been VP of media sales for Warner Bros. Television, will focus on ad sales and brand sponsorships for TV series from AMG’s...
