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BYRON ALLEN’S ALLEN MEDIA BROADCASTING RENEWS CBS NETWORK AFFILIATION AGREEMENTS IN FIVE MARKETS
Los Angeles, CA – January 22, 2024 Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG) is proud to announce that its broadcast television station division—Allen Media Broadcasting—has closed a new multi-year deal with CBS to retain its affiliation in five U.S. markets. Allen Media Broadcasting owns five CBS-affiliated stations in Rochester, MN (KIMT), Chico, CA (KHSL), Terre Haute, IN (WTHI), West Lafayette, IN (WLFI), and Evansville, IN (WEVV).
Allen Media Group now owns/operates 28 ABC-CBS-FOX-NBC network affiliated broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets.
"We are delighted to continue our relationship with CBS network,” said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group. “CBS has been an outstanding partner to our five affiliate stations by delivering phenomenal programming across all genres—including entertainment, news, and highly-coveted sports to our viewers. We look forward to extending our partnership with CBS."
Super Bowl LVIII will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, February 11, 2024, live from Las Vegas.
About Allen Media Group
Chairman and CEO Byron Allen founded Allen Media Group in 1993. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it has offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. Allen Media Group owns/operates 28 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 300 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICECENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO TELEVISION NETWORK, THIS TV, and PATTRN. Allen Media Group also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, SPORTS.TV, THEGRIO, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP and LOCAL NOW--the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. Allen Media Group also produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 73 television programs, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations. With a library of over 5,000 hours of owned content across multiple genres, Allen Media Group provides video content to broadcast television stations, cable television networks, mobile devices, and multimedia digital. Our mission is to provide excellent content to our viewers, global platforms, and Fortune 500 advertising partners. For more information, visit: www.allenmedia.tv
Contact:
Eric Peterkofsky/Allen Media Group
310-277-3500 ext 124
eric@es.tv