We are lucky enough to be working in media at a time when content is not only plentiful but also provocative, adventurous, thrilling – and available across many platforms and formats. That’s why the 2024 Cynopsis Best of the Best & Rising Star Awards exists – to...
The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its 2024 SWAC Football schedule on HBCU GO highlighted by several highly anticipated games. Tuskegee at Grambling State will kick off HBCU GO league coverage on Saturday, September 7th at 7:00 p.m. EST. The schedule of games is highlighted by several Classic and...
TheGrio will simulcast CNN‘s presidential debate on Thursday while providing pre- and post- event coverage. TheGrio will start live coverage at 8:30 p.m. ET with a preview show hosted by April Ryan, Washington, D.C. bureau chief and senior White House correspondent, and senior correspondent Natasha Alford. The pre show...
Byron Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, gets the Fred Dressler Leadership Award at the 2024 Mirror Awards June 13 in New York. Established by Syracuse’s Newhouse School in 2006, the Mirror Awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who...
Allen Media Group has struck a FAST channel distribution pact with Amazon that will make its TV stations, Local Now channels and Weather Channel en Español available for free via Amazon’s Fire TV and Echo Show devices. The deal covers 21 Allen Media Broadcasting-owned TV stations including...
Allen Media Group today launched new, in-stream “Frame” ad experiences — now available to advertisers on AMG’s The Weather Channel, Local Now and HBCU Go connected TV (CTV) apps. Powered by streaming ad technology from BrightLine, these high engagement and non-disruptive formats “offer advertisers unique opportunities to reach audiences during both live and...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group said it reached an expanded carriage agreement with Hawaiian Telcom. Hawaiian Telcom agreed to new retransmission agreement with Allen’s broadcast stations in Honolulu, KITV and KIKU. It will continue to carry seven of Allen’s cable TV networks: JusticeCentral.TV, Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, Cars.TV, MyDestination.TV, ES.TV and...
Allen Media Group has reached a new multi-year agreement with Charter Communications that will see the Spectrum owner continue to carry The Weather Channel, TheGrio, Justice Central.TV, Pets.TV, Recipe.TV, and Cars.TV. Under the deal, Spectrum video customers will continue to have access to The Weather Channel TV app at no additional...
A lifetime ago when I was a program director in Washington, D.C., Byron Allen was one of the people who often called to pitch new shows. Unlike the major syndicators, whose huge budgets allowed them to wine and dine program buyers, Byron was an independent who...
Jon Kelley has renewed his overall deal with Allen Media Group. The multi-year agreement will see the veteran television news, sports and entertainment host continue to serve as on-air talent and an executive producer for AMG programming across its television and digital platforms. Kelley has hosted “Funny...
