Allen Media Group is reportedly halting its plan to replace about 100 local weather reporters with a Weather Channel feed.
Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best of times. But to do it right as unpredictable and dangerous weather disasters tear across the country this month - from wildfires in California to a historic freeze in the south - was particularly tone
Allen Media Group will lay off or reassign at least 50 workers across all of its local stations, according to a report.
Allen Media Group announced sweeping cuts that will see all of local meteorologists eliminated or reassigned at its nearly two dozen television stations nationwide.
As part of the Allen Media Group owned by media personality Byron Allen, AMB owns and operates 28 TV stations nationwide, covering all four commercial networks. AMG acquired The Weather Channel, part of The Weather Group, in a deal worth $300 million in 2018 and the “groundbreaking format” has been in Beta for several years, according to AMG.
Allen Media, owner of the Weather Channel, is reassigning or moving local meteorologists in two dozen local TV station markets to Atlanta in a new "hub" set up.
Allen Media's plans to create a national hub for its local stations at Atlanta's Weather Channel has been reversed for some of its local markets.
Firing your meteorologists and beaming in reports from Atlanta is the opposite of that. Byron Allen has proven himself to be a savvy entrepreneur in building Allen Media Group into a diversified company with assets across broadcast, cable, streaming and ...
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