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Byron Allen Bids To Buy BET & VH1 For $3.5 Billion
Media mogul Byron Allen has put forth a bid to buy BET and its networks from Paramount Global for $3.5 billion. The news comes on the same day that Paramount is in talks with Warner Bros. Discovery about a merger.
CBS To Air Inaugural TheGrio Awards On Network Television
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tommaso Boddi / Getty A Black media destination is heading to network television. CBS has agreed to air the inaugural TheGrio Awards. As spotted on Deadline African American-focused news, lifestyle, sports and entertainment platform theGrio recently celebrated icons, leaders and legends at Byron Allen’s inaugural THEGRIO AWARDS, a star-studded, black-tie event held at the Beverly Hilton. Co-hosted by THE TALK’s Sheryl Underwood and Taye Diggs, BYRON ALLEN PRESENTS THEGRIO AWARDS will be broadcast Saturday, Nov. 26 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live on Paramount +*. The special will celebrate excellence in film, music, comedy, television, sports, philanthropy, business, fashion, social justice, ...
April Ryan Named White House Correspondent, DC Bureau Chief For TheGrio
Source: Shannon Finney / Getty A familiar face will be present at White House pressers when President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take their oaths next month. April Ryan will now serve as the White House Correspondent for TheGrio and will head the Washington D.C. bureau for the outlets upcoming TheGrio.TV venture. As reported by TheGrio, Ryan has served as a White House Correspondent for nearly 25 years for the American Urban Radio Network. The Baltimore, Md. native now occupies the role for TheGrio along with being named the bureau chief for the 24-hour broadcast television network founded by media magnate, Byron Allen. With Biden’s inauguration, he will become the fifth president that Ryan has covered since starting her career in the late 1990s. Along with her ...
The Grio.TV Set To Premiere MLK Weekend Says Byron Allen
Source: Greg Doherty / Getty Get ready, the Grio.TV is coming to 100 million households next month. Allen Media Group founder Byron Allen announced on Friday (Dec.4) the Grio.TV will be apart of the rebranding of his newly acquired MGM over-the-air broadcast network Light TV into a channel that will focus on African American-featured content. The Grio reports that the channel’s slogan will be “Our Culture Forever” and will feature movies, game shows, sitcoms, dramas, concerts, variety shows, news, and lifestyle content when it launches on Martin Luther King weekend. Viewers can watch the new channel via free digital streaming,over-the-air broadcast television stations, cable/telco/satellite platforms. Allen, who purchased the website in 2016 and successfully grew its active from less...
