Byron Allen is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios, which he started from his dining room table in 1993. Today, Allen Media Group is one of the largest privately-owned media companies in the world. Allen Media Group includes a motion picture production and distribution division, THE WEATHER CHANNEL and its AVOD free streaming service LOCAL NOW, the digital news platform, THE GRIO, over 68 shows on broadcast television stations and cable, 32 ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliate broadcast television stations across 20 U.S. television markets, and 12 television networks serving 180 million subscribers.