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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Comcast Reach Carriage Deal ]]></title>
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                                <p>Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios and Comcast on Thursday reached a content carriage agreement, ending a long, legal dispute that ended up at the Supreme Court.</p><figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="BFKjZmG6FXRaWHqpnFX3YZ" name="" alt="Byron Allen during the 2019 B&amp;C Hall of Fame gala " src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BFKjZmG6FXRaWHqpnFX3YZ.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BFKjZmG6FXRaWHqpnFX3YZ.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class="pull-"><span class="caption-text">Byron Allen during the 2019 B&C Hall of Fame gala  </span></figcaption></figure><p>According to the deal, Comcast extends its carriage agreement for The Weather Channel and 14 broadcast television stations owned by Allen, who is Entertainment Studios/Allen Media Group founder, Chairman and CEO and a 2019 B&C Hall of Fame inductee.</p><p>In addition, the deal also includes carriage of ES’ channels Comedy.Tv, Recipe.TV and JusticeCentral.TV on its X1 and video on demand platforms, according to both parties.</p><p>“We’re excited to begin a new phase of partnership with Comcast and Xfinity, including the distribution of our cable channels for the first time on Xfinity platforms,” said Allen in a statement.</p><p>Comcast Cable senior vice president of video and entertainment Bec Heap added: “We are pleased to have reached this multifaceted agreement that continues our long relationship with The Weather Channel while bringing Xfinity customers additional content. We look forward to an ongoing partnership.”</p><p>The deal effectively ends a five-year legal dispute between Allen and Comcast. Allen and the National Association of African American Owned Media sued Comcast in 2015, alleging that the media company conspired to keep African-American owned networks off its systems. A federal court dismissed the suit three times, but the decision was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit a year ago.</p><p>Comcast appealed to the Supreme Court, which this past March ruled against the lower court ruling, saying that Allen "bears the burden" of showing that race was the "but for" cause of the alleged injury--in this case lack of carriage.</p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/supreme-court-rules-against-esn-in-comcast-suit" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/supreme-court-rules-against-esn-in-comcast-suit">RELATED: Supreme Court Rules Against Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios in Comcast Suit </a></p><p>The deal comes on the heels of Comcast's pledge to invest $100 million over the next three years to combat racism and advance social justice and equality. </p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/comcast-unveils-100m-plan-to-advance-social-justice-equality" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/comcast-unveils-100m-plan-to-advance-social-justice-equality">RELATED: Comcast Unveils $100M Plan to Advance Social Justice, Equity</a> </p><p>Allen still has active a $10 billion lawsuit against Charter filed in 2016 also claiming carriage discrimination. </p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks Reach NCTC Carriage Deal ]]></title>
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                                <p>Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studio Networks has reached a long-term affiliation agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), the companies announced Monday</p><p>The deal calls for NCTC members to distribute six Entertainment Studios networks, including Cars.TV, Comedy.TV, ES.Tv, MyDestination.TV, Pets.TV and Recipe.TV, according to the two parties.</p><p>“We are delighted to extend our partnership with NCTC and independent operators,” said Byron Allen, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Entertainment Studios. “This renewal underscores our commitment to provide premiere original lifestyle and entertainment programming to NCTC members and subscribers for years to come.”</p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Mediacom to Carry Entertainment Studios’ Comedy.TV, Pets.TV ]]></title>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="zoyL4ajiVdHcHkuzbwNiWL" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zoyL4ajiVdHcHkuzbwNiWL.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zoyL4ajiVdHcHkuzbwNiWL.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>Entertainment Studios has reached a carriage deal with Mediacom Communications for two of its high-definition channels, Comedy.Tv and Pets.TV, the company announced Wednesday.</p><p>The multi-year distribution deal calls for Medicom – the fifth largest cable operator – to distribute the Byron Allen-owned channels via its linear, on demand and TV Everywhere platforms, said company officials.</p><p>“This deal for carriage of our Comedy.TV and Pets.TV branded networks is important to us, and we are thrilled to have reached a long-term agreement with Mediacom,” said Byron Allen, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Entertainment Studios in a statement. </p><p>Added Italia Commisso Weinand, Mediacom’s Executive Vice President of Programming and Human Resources: “These networks deliver a unique and entertaining mix of today’s funniest comedians, stand-up comedy performances, sitcoms, and pet lifestyle shows. This type of programming is popular with our customers."</p>
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