With hyper-realistic visuals, The Weather Channel connects with viewers in harm’s way. By Paula Hendrickson for Emmy magazine. Early in last year's coverage of hurricanes Florence and Michael, viewers of The Weather Channel saw meteorologist Erika Navarro surrounded in the studio by a very realistic depiction of...

Getty Images Byron Allen hosted his third annual Oscars gala benefitting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday evening where stars like Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder dined and danced while raising money for a worthy cause on Hollywood’s biggest night. The exclusive, black-tie affair emceed by Jamie Foxx is the hottest...

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios will launch what it calls the first Spanish-language weather streaming service: The Weather Channel en Español. Entertainment Studios, whose assets include TV networks, syndicated TV series and a film distribution company, bought the Weather Channel linear network and its streaming service, Local...

Some big things have come from sharks — Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, Steven Spielberg’s career and “Sharknado,” to name a few. Showbiz mogul Byron Allen used one to launch his theatrical distribution company, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures. “I studied all of the release patterns, genres and movies, and noticed that...