Meat is on the menu! And Jeremy Allen White is dishing it up!
16.12.2023 - 19:17 / variety.com
Jaden Thompson Byron Allen’s media company Entertainment Studios, also known as Allen Media Group (AMG), is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, a major milestone for one of the most visible Black-owned media companies in the U.S. AMG has championed several diversity-related initiatives over the years, including the recent launch of the streaming service HBCU Go.
The free, ad-supported streamer delivers sports content to audiences from the country’s 107 historically Black colleges and universities. Allen, a preeminent Black entertainment mogul, has upheld equality and inclusivity as core values of his company for decades.
Some of AMG’s assets include the Weather Channel, the Weather Channel en Español, Local Now, HBCU Go, TheGrio, comedy.tv and sports.tv, among other networks. Allen’s umbrella also includes the distribution banner Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures.
Though Allen Media Group has significantly expanded in the past three decades to include thousands of employees, Allen’s goal of reaching economic parity across racial groups remains the same, says chief revenue officer Darren Galatt, who has worked alongside Allen for over 20 years and identifies himself as “employee number eight.” “If [Black people] represent 14% of the of the population, then they should get 14% of the budget,” says Galatt. “And that equity and parity is what drives all of our communication to the industry.” HBCU Go, which can be accessed via the HBCU Go app, cable packages and Allen Media Group’s network TheGrio, specifically targets Black viewers.
Through TheGrio, HBCU games reach between 56 million and 60 million households on the weekends, per Galatt’s estimate. Galatt says many of Allen Media Group’s central tenets can be
.Meat is on the menu! And Jeremy Allen White is dishing it up!
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