Allen Media Group

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Allen Media Group
Formerly
  • CF Entertainment (1993–2003)
  • Entertainment Studios
    (2003–2022)
Company type Private
Industry
PredecessorBYCA Productions
Founded1993;32 years ago (1993)
Founder Byron Allen
Headquarters
Century City, Los Angeles, California
,
United States
Key people
Byron Allen (chairman, CEO)
Total assets $1 billion (2017)
OwnerByron Allen
Number of employees
2,200 (2024)
Divisions
Subsidiaries
Website allenmedia.tv
Footnotes /references
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Allen Media Group, alternately known by its former name of Entertainment Studios, Inc. is an American media and entertainment company based in Los Angeles. Owned and founded in 1993 by businessman Byron Allen, the company was initially involved in the production and distribution of first-run television series for U.S. television syndication. Under the Entertainment Studios Networks division, it also operates a group of digital cable and satellite channels, which broadcast a mix of original programs and the company's syndicated content.

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In the late 2010s, the company made several major expansions to its operations, including entering the film distribution market; acquiring The Weather Channel from NBCUniversal and Bain Capital; partnering with Sinclair Broadcast Group to operate the regional sports network chain Bally Sports via Diamond Sports Group; and its acquisition of television stations from another minority-owned media group, Bayou City Broadcasting.

History

With television experience as being a former co-host of the NBC series Real People from 1979 until 1984, stand-up comedian Byron Allen launched his own weekly syndicated late-night talk show, The Byron Allen Show, in 1989. It was produced by his BYCA Productions and Allbritton Communications, and distributed by Genesis Entertainment. [5]

By 1991, Allen had created BYCA Television Distribution to take over distribution of his talk show as well as syndicate other programs. [6] By early 1993, Allen's talk show, which became a weeknight strip the previous fall, [7] had been cancelled, and BYCA Television Distribution had been embroiled in a lawsuit filed by former employees who claimed they hadn't been paid by Allen. [8] Amidst the legal and financial issues, creditors forced BYCA into Chapter 7 bankruptcy. [9] The same year, Allen founded CF Entertainment. [10] [11] Following a similar business model to BYCA, Allen was able to succeed where he had failed before by focusing on producing low-cost, syndicated non-fiction programming, including interview series and court shows (largely scripted from actual testimony). Allen served as host for some of these programs. [12] In December 2003, CF became Entertainment Studios. [11] Entertainment Studios green-lit its first film and stage projects in December 2011, when it acquired the rights to develop a biographical film and theatrical play on the life of Sammy Davis Jr. from his daughter, Tracey Davis. [13]

The company ventured into scripted programming in 2012, with the third-quarter launch of the sitcoms Mr. Box Office and The First Family . [14] Both were set for 104 episodes [14] over two years under a model of accelerated production similar to Debmar-Mercury's 10-90 Model. [15] The two half-hour shows were picked up as a two-hour weekend primetime programming block with two episodes of each show back to back by Tribune, Weigel and CBS Television Station groups. [14]

The company launched its eighth cable channel and first ad-supported service, Justice Central.TV, on December 10, 2012. [16]

In 2015, the company separately sued AT&T, Comcast, and Charter Communications for racial discrimination in being biased against minority-run entertainment companies in not carrying its cable channels. AT&T settled in December with the addition of 7 of Entertainment Studios' channels added to AT&T's DirecTV lineup. Entertainment Studios added similar suits against Charter and the FCC. [17] The Comcast case, though initially dismissed at the district court, was allowed to go forward by the Ninth Circuit; Comcast was able to successfully petition the Supreme Court to hear its case in Comcast v. National Association of African-American-Owned Media in November 2019.

In October 2015, Entertainment Studios acquired Freestyle Releasing for an undisclosed amount "said to be sealed for high-eight figures". Freestyle also had an output deal with Netflix. [10] The Freestyle purchase was used to bolster an expansion into film distribution, via its new Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures division. [18] [19] Its first release, 47 Meters Down , took in $44 million in box office revenue. [12]

In June 2016, Entertainment Studios acquired TheGrio, a news website focusing on stories of interest to African Americans. [20]

In mid-September 2017, the company announced plans to launch an over the top sports streaming service known as Sports.tv. [21]

On March 22, 2018, Entertainment Studios announced its intent to acquire The Weather Channel's television assets from an NBCUniversal/Bain Capital/Blackstone Inc. partnership. The actual value was undisclosed, but was reported to be around $300 million; the channel's non-television assets, which were separately sold to IBM two years prior, were not included in the sale. [3] In September 2018, Entertainment Studios announced that it had arranged $500 million worth of credit facilities through Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies Financial Group, Brightwood Capital Advisors and Comerica. Allen explained that these funds were to be used for further "large-scale" acquisitions, productions, and other general expenses. [12] [22] In an interview with Variety, Allen stated that he was "not a seller", and that he was "one or two acquisitions away from being a fairly large company". [12]

On May 3, 2019, it was announced that, under the subsidiary Diamond Sports Group, Entertainment Studios would be an equity and content partner in Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of Fox Sports Networks (now known as Bally Sports). [23] On May 6, 2019, Entertainment Studios announced that it would expand into television station ownership by establishing the new unit, Allen Media Broadcasting. In June 2020, Comcast agreed to carry Entertainment Studios' Comedy.TV, JusticeCentral.TV, Recipe.TV, and The Weather Channel, and to retransmission consent for the Allen Media Broadcasting television stations, as part of a settlement of the Supreme Court racial discrimination lawsuit. [24]

In May 2021, Allen sued fast food chain McDonald's for $10 billion, alleging that the company "intentionally discriminated against Entertainment Studios and Weather Group through a pattern of racial stereotyping and refusals to contract" for advertising across its properties. [25] [26]

In July 2022, Allen Media Group acquired Black News Channel out of bankruptcy from Shahid Khan for $11 million; [27] it was discontinued as a separate service, with its carriage merged into TheGrio.TV. [28] [29]

Beginning in late April 2024, Allen Media Group laid off about 300 employees, or around 12 percent of its staff, throughout all of its operating divisions. The company's explanation for the staff reduction is to better position themselves for further growth. [30] Further layoffs took place in January 2025, with announced plans to lay off nearly all meteorologists from its local television stations in favor of centralizing weather coverage at The Weather Channel. [31] [32] However, due to public feedback, Allen Media Group quickly changed its plan and will retain some local meteorology teams. [33]

Television series distributed by Entertainment Studios

Entertainment Studios has historically been known for its syndicated programs, which are distributed using a bartered model that does not require stations to pay a rights fee. The company sells national advertising inventory guaranteeing an audience in aggregate across all of its programs, and shares the revenue with stations. [34] Allen explained to Bloomberg in 2013 that this business model was attractive to stations that cannot afford to acquire programs from the syndication market, and that "we offer, across all our television shows, probably 20 million to 25 million viewers a week". [34]

The company has employed various cost-cutting techniques, including using non-union staff, and streamlining productions to reduce their complexity—a technique that also allows it to produce programming at an accelerated pace. [34] A prominent example of these practices are present in the company's court shows, which are dramatized with actors rather than arbitration-based like other popular entries in the genre; Allen explained that with this model, "we don't have the cost of airfare, hotels, security; we don't have the costs of the claims, the settlements." [34] The studio's first production— Entertainers with Byron Allen —bypassed budget constraints by filming interviews at press junkets, using equipment that was provided by film studios for use by the media. [35]

These practices have allowed some of Entertainment Studios programs to bring in sizable amounts of advertising revenue, even with clearances in lesser-viewed time slots such as late night, or without having produced new episodes in an extended period. [34]

Court shows

Sitcoms

Game shows

Syndicated specials

Talk and magazine series

Other shows

Assets

Entertainment Studios Networks

Cable and digital

  • Automotive.TV
  • Cars.TV
  • Comedy.TV
  • ES.TV [39]
  • MyDestination.TV
  • Pets.TV
  • Recipe.TV [39]

Television channels

Allen Media Broadcasting

Allen Media Broadcasting, LLC is an American television station operating company owned by Entertainment Studios. On May 6, 2019, Entertainment Studios announced that it would expand into television station ownership by acquiring the stations of Bayou City Broadcasting for $165 million, including Evansville, Indiana's WEVV-TV and WEEV-LD, and Lafayette, Louisiana's KADN-TV and KLAF-LD. The stations would operate under the new unit, Allen Media Broadcasting. [41] The sale was completed on July 31, 2019. [42] On October 1, 2019, Allen Media agreed to purchase 11 stations from USA Television, a subsidiary of Heartland Media, for $290 million. [43] The sale of the Heartland stations was approved by the FCC on November 22, 2019, [44] and it was completed on February 11, 2020. [45]

In March 2020, Allen Media made an offer for the Tegna station group as the third known bidder. [46] On August 17, 2020, the company announced its purchase of Hawaii ABC affiliate KITV from SJL Broadcasting for $30 million. [47] On April 29, 2021, it was announced that Allen Media would purchase 10 stations in seven markets from Gray Television for $380 million, from a divestiture of stations owned by Quincy Media, as a condition of Gray's purchase of Quincy. These are stations where Gray already owned a station, and are mostly in the Upper Midwest. [48] In a separate deal with Gray, announced in July, Allen has acquired WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, while Gray retained competing WNEM-TV through its merger with Meredith Corporation's broadcasting division. [49]

On December 15, 2021, it was announced that Allen Media would purchase WCOV-TV, WIYC and WALE-LD, all serving Montgomery, Alabama, from Woods Communications Corporation for $28.5 million, pending FCC approval; at the time, the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2022. [50] The sale would give the stations an in-state sibling in Huntsville-based ABC affiliate WAAY-TV.

In January 2025, Allen Media Group announced plans to outsource the local weather coverage on all of its stations to The Weather Channel, with plans for meteorologists to be either laid off or reassigned to work from TWC's Atlanta studios. [31] [51]

Television stations

Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.

City of license / Market Station
Owned sinceNetwork affiliation
Huntsville, Alabama WAAY-TV 31 (17)2020 [a] ABC
Montgomery, Alabama WALE-LD 17 (16)2023Montgomery Weather Channel
WCOV-TV 20 (22)2023 Fox
WIYC 48 (19)2023 Cozi TV
Tucson, Arizona KVOA 4 (23)2021 [b] NBC
Chico–Redding, California KHSL-TV 12 (36)2020 [a]
KNVN 24 (24)2020 [c]
Hilo, Hawaii KHVO [A] 4 (18)2021ABC
Honolulu, Hawaii KITV 4 (20)2021ABC
KIKU 20 (19)2022 Independent
Wailuku, Hawaii KMAU [A] 4 (29)2021ABC
Harrisburg–Carbondale, Illinois WSIL-TV 3 (34)2021 [b] ABC
Rockford, Illinois WREX 13 (13)2021 [b] NBC
Evansville, Indiana WEVV-TV 44 (28)2019 [d]
WEEV-LD [B] 47 (21)2019 [d] Fox/MyNetworkTV
Fort Wayne, Indiana WFFT-TV 55 (20)2020 [a] Fox
Terre Haute, Indiana WTHI-TV 10 (10)2020 [a]
  • CBS
  • Fox/MyNetworkTV (DT2)
  • The CW (DT3)
West Lafayette, Indiana WLFI-TV 18 (11)2020 [a]
  • CBS
  • The CW (DT2)
Waterloo–Cedar Rapids, Iowa KWWL 7 (7)2021 [b] NBC
Lafayette, Louisiana KADN-TV 15 (16)2019 [d]
  • Fox
  • NBC (DT2)
  • MyNetworkTV (DT3)
KLAF-LD 14 (14)2019 [d] NBC
Flint–Saginaw, Michigan WJRT-TV 12 (12)2021 [b] ABC
Mason City, Iowa–Rochester, Minnesota KIMT 3 (24)2020 [a]
  • CBS
  • MyNetworkTV (DT2)
Tupelo–Columbus, Mississippi WTVA 9 (11)2020 [a]
  • NBC
  • ABC (DT2)
Poplar Bluff, Missouri KPOB-TV [C] 15 (15)2021 [b] ABC
Eugene, Oregon KEZI 9 (9)2020 [a] ABC
Medford–Klamath Falls, Oregon KDRV 12 (12)2020 [a] ABC
KDKF [D] 31 (29)2020 [a] ABC
La Crosse–Eau Claire, Wisconsin WXOW 19 (28)2021 [b] ABC
WQOW [E] 18 (25)2021 [b] ABC
Madison, Wisconsin WKOW 27 (26)2021 [b] ABC
Wausau–Crandon, Wisconsin WAOW 9 (9)2021 [b] ABC
WMOW [F] 4 (13)2021 [b]
  1. 1 2 Satellite of KITV.
  2. ↑ Repeater of WEVV-DT2.
  3. ↑ Satellite of WSIL-TV.
  4. ↑ Satellite of KDRV.
  5. ↑ Semi-satellite of WXOW.
  6. ↑ Satellite of WAOW via DT2.
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acquired from Heartland Media.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Acquired by Allen Media as divestitures from Gray Television's acquisitions of Quincy Media and Meredith Local Media.
  3. ↑ Owned by Maxair Media, LLC. and operated by Allen Media Group.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Acquired from Bayou City Broadcasting.

Television networks

The following over-the-air specialty networks were acquired by Allen Media Group from MGM Television in October 2020. [52]

  • TheGrio, a network focusing on African-American culture.
  • This TV, a network that primarily focuses on movies from the MGM library.

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures

YearRelease DateFilm titleDirectorGross [53] Ref
2017June 16, 2017 47 Meters Down Johannes Roberts $44.3 million [54]
September 22, 2017 Friend Request Simon Verhoeven $3.7 million [55]
December 22, 2017 Hostiles Scott Cooper $40.9 million [56]
2018March 9, 2018 The Hurricane Heist Rob Cohen $15.8 million [57]
April 6, 2018 Chappaquiddick John Curran $18 million [58]
2019January 11, 2019 Replicas Jeffrey Nachmanoff $8.1 million [59]
August 16, 2019 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Johannes Roberts $22.2 million [60]
September 20, 2019 The Wedding Year Robert Luketic — [61]
November 1, 2019 Arctic Dogs Aaron Woodley $3.6 million [62]

In 2016, Entertainment Studios began to make major expansions into film distribution; at the Sundance Film Festival, the company made a surprise $20 million bid for The Birth of a Nation , losing to Fox Searchlight. [18] In July 2016, Entertainment Studios signed a multi-year home video and on-demand distribution deal with Anchor Bay Entertainment, covering future theatrical releases by the company. [39] The studio acquired its first film later that month, with the North American rights to 47 Meters Down from Dimension Films. [54] At the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, Entertainment Studios also bought Chappaquiddick , Replicas , and Hostiles . [56] Entertainment Studios aimed to distribute at least 18 films in 2018. In January of that year, on his film distribution model, Allen said: [19]

We're chasing the studio crumbs. They don't want movies that do $40 million to $60 million. We totally will be good with those numbers, and that is what we're pursuing. Our thing is we are really big on slow roll-outs and small releases. Our philosophy—we believe in wide releases. We like to have movies that are 1,500–4,000 screens and we are chasing what the studios don't want. They're chasing much bigger. And we're going to take their crumbs and make a gourmet meal. And then eventually we'll move on to chasing more than their crumbs. But today we're chasing the crumbs.

Diamond Sports Group

A subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group operated in partnership with Entertainment Studios, Diamond Sports Group is the mass media company that operates Bally Sports, a group of regional sports networks formerly known as the Fox Sports Networks. The company was founded in 2019 to acquire the networks from The Walt Disney Company, which was required to sell the chain as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox. [63] [64] [65]

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