Media mogul Byron Allen has offered $10 billion to the Walt Disney Co. to purchase its ABC television network, in addition to the cable networks FX and National Geographic. The bid, which Allen's representative confirmed to CBS MoneyWatch, would include ABC's national TV network as well...
Big thinkers get big things done and implement change in their industries, and ALLEN MEDIA GROUP Founder/Chairman/CEO Byron Allen is living proof of that. Allen’s list of "firsts" is impressive. Starting at age 14, he was the youngest comedy writer for some of the biggest names...
The Allen Media Group digital platform Local Now – a leading free-streaming service for hyper-local news, weather, sports, traffic and entertainment – today announced its partnership with CBS. Local Now has expanded its local news footprint with the launch of 14 free ad-supported television (FAST) channels from CBS Stations. In addition to this local...
Allen Media Group's (AMG) free-streaming digital platform, HBCU GO, has proudly announced a 10-year media rights partnership with the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA). The partnership grants HBCU GO the rights to provide coverage of all CIAA team sports through June 30, 2032, including cable,...
CBS will shore up its late night roster in the fall with an assist from Byron Allen. The media mogul’s long-running syndicated show Comics Unleashed — which Allen also hosts — will follow repeats of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert beginning Sept. 18 for what the network says is a “limited run.”...
Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) -- the largest supplier of first-run syndicated programming for broadcast television stations -- proudly announces the premiere of 3 new HD television court series starting today: MATHIS COURT WITH JUDGE MATHIS JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE WITH JUDGE MILIAN EQUAL JUSTICE WITH...
The Washington Post today announced the expansion of Washington Post TV on Allen Media Group’s Local Now – the leading free streaming service for local news and entertainment in America. Washington Post Television provides an additional destination for viewers to watch breaking news as it...
Arguably the winner of the court fallout is Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, which snapped up People’s Court’s Judge Marilyn Milian and Judge Greg Mathis and gave them both their own new shows. Those shows — Justice for the People With Judge Milian and Mathis Court With Judge Mathis — join Equal Justice...
“At the end of the day, broadcast TV stations are in big trouble,” says Byron Allen, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group. “The suppliers on whom they have depended for content for decades have abandoned them. They are taking their capital, their resources and...
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) announced that HBCU GO has exclusive rights to broadcast five games in the 2023 football season. HBCU GO becomes the conference's exclusive broadcast partner for its 13 SIAC football programs. "This is a historic moment," Curtis Symonds, President of HBCU...
