Byron Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group and Entertainment Studios, is unyielding in his efforts to get corporate America to spend 15% of its ad budgets on Black-owned media and redress generations of inequity, including a yawning absence of minority-owned media. “America should not be proud of the fact in 2022 you are looking at the one and only Black person in America that owns Big Four network affiliates,” he says.
On the front page of Tuesday s Business section,
New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum helped open a new front in the liberal media s never-ending war against Fox News by talking about…weather coverage? But you see, it’s Fox weather coverage, so it’s automatically controversial, even if the project hasn’t actually launched yet. From the headline, it was clear what Grynbaum s angle would be: “Fox Wants to Do for TV Weather What It Did for Cable News.”
One can almost hear the booing and hissing among
Times readers triggered by that leading headline. Except this time, Grynbaum had The Weather Channel to assist him in this preemptive pot shots (click “expand”):
Weather Channel owner Byron Allen welcomes Murdoch weather competitor
“Now the world will understand how big of a business the weather business is and how important it is,” Allen said.
theGrio’s parent company Entertainment Studios, says he welcomes the competition from fellow mogul
Rupert Murdoch, who is set to debut the 24-hour streaming channel Fox Weather later this year.
As previously reported by
The Weather Channel’s new subscription streaming service:
The Weather Channel Plus. The subscription service will run at $4.99 per month with more than 50 news and entertainment streaming channels offered.
“Rupert Murdoch is very smart; he is the best of the best,” Allen said in an interview with the
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