Long before Byron Allen was cutting multi-billion-dollar deals, he was born to a humble family in Detroit, Michigan. When Allen was quite young, his parents divorced, prompting him to move with ...

Byron Allen came to fame at the age of 18, when he co-hosted the talk show "Real People" starting in 1979. Allen reportedly wants a controlling stake in Tegna — but he needs co-investors.

A federal judge has approved Black media mogul Byron Allen‘s $10 billion discrimination lawsuit against McDonald’s, which he accuses of unfairly advertising with Black-owned media companies.

Byron Allen had accused McDonald’s of “racial stereotyping” by not advertising with black-owned media, and lying when it pledged in 2021 to boost national ad spending with those media to 5% ...

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“Byron Allen could lose a little face and a lot of money,” Harold Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, told Forbes, referring to the stakes for each side. “And McDonald’s ...

Byron Allen has offered $14.3 billion for Paramount Global, the latest effort to acquire major media assets by Allen, a former stand-up comedian and actor who has made several billion-dollar bids ...

[1/2] Byron Allen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Studios and Allen Media Group, speaks at the 2021 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., October 19, 2021.

Byron Allen on His Plans for Media Domination: “What You See Today Will Be 10,000 Times Bigger” Since he was a kid, comic turned mogul Byron Allen has played the long game, acquiring assets ...

Byron Allen attends the 2nd Annual theGrio Awards at The Beverly Hilton on October 21, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for theGrio) ...

Byron Allen, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group (AMG) and Entertainment Studios, is a big thinker who takes his cues from the likes of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller.

Byron Allen plans to appeal after a Los Angeles judge dismissed his $100 million lawsuit against McDonald’s for failing to increase ad spending with Black-owned media outlets.