Allen Media Group said Local Now, its free streaming service featuring local news and entertainment, is launching three free, ad-supported streaming TV channels from NBC News. The three channels are NBC News Now, Today All Day and Dateline 24/7. “Adding these three excellent NBC News FAST channels...
Fast: Home Rescue, starring Cody and Felicia Walker (brother and sister-in-law of the late actor Paul Walker) has been set at Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. The one-hour weekly home renovation series highlights families that have been impacted by natural disasters. The show follows the organization...
EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group Motion Pictures has tapped screenwriter Evan Daugherty (Divergent) to pen the sci-fi action feature, The Ultimate Weapon. The film based on a story by Allen will be financed by AMGMP, with exec producers to include Allen, Carolyn Folks, Jennifer...
Allen Media Group has promoted Andrew Temple to chief operating officer of broadcast sales & syndication. Temple previously served as president of domestic television distribution. In his new position, Temple will continue to be responsible for the distribution and syndication of AMG’s 70 television series, its...
EXCLUSIVE: HBCU GO — the free-streaming digital platform of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, which serves as the leading media provider for the nation’s 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities — has set a new promotional partnership with the award-winning indie Freedom’s Path, starring RJ...
Black-owned and Black-targeted media leaders continue to maintain that their companies are treated like second-class citizens in an advertising market that denies them their fair share and pays them rates significantly lower than those earned by larger media outlets. To underscore their point, the top executives...
Byron Allen’s theGrio will provide coverage of the US-Africa Summit today, Dec. 12, through theGrio platforms, in a partnership with Women United Foundation. Africa’s First Ladies — including First Lady of The Gambia Fatoumattah Bah Barrow, First Lady of Angola Ana Lourenco, First Lady of Cape Verde Debora Carlvaho, First Lady of Gabon...
Janice ArouhPresident, Network Distribution & MarketingAllen Media Group/Entertainment Studios Networks It’s been another banner year at Allen Media and ESN and Arouh is a big reason why. Among her toplines, she secured the distribution of The Weather Group and ESN channels on YouTube TV, led the...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is expanding its television sales team with the addition of Kevin O’Donnell and Mark McKay. “At a time when many media companies are downsizing, Allen Media Group continues to invest in, and expand our dedicated, strategic, and focused sales and distribution...
Founder/Chairman/CEO Allen Media Group Allen continues to move steadily closer to his still far-off goal of building the biggest media company in the world. In 2022, his Allen Media Group (AMG) bought the free ad-supported streaming service HBCUGO.TV, closed deals for it to carry Southwestern Athletic and...
