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Your company can be sued for not "allocating" a certain percentage of money to black ppl.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:15 pm
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He has previously successfully sued Comcast and Charter.
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Media mogul Byron Allen is threatening legal action against major brands if they don’t allocate more ad dollars to Black-owned media.
Allen sent letters of intent to brands and their agencies last week calling on them to shift a minimum of 2% of their budgets to Black-owned media or face legal action.
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Over the past year, Allen, who owns The Weather Channel, as well as seven other cable networks, a syndication production company, local stations and digital assets, says he has engaged in conversations with chairpeople and CEOs at agencies and holding companies as well as brands about investing more in Black-owned media. But one year later, Allen says he has not seen any real progress.
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Allen calls out General Motors and Coca-Cola as two brands that have a poor track record of working with Black-owned media and companies he has sent letters to asking for change.
He has previously successfully sued Comcast and Charter.
This post was edited on 3/16/21 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:16 pm to GEAUXmedic
The definition of Blackmail.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:20 pm to GEAUXmedic
For real. It's some racist bullshite that I don't see ads for Viking River Cruises when I'm browsing Worldstar Hip Hop.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:24 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Over the past year, Allen, who owns The Weather Channel,
Wait...Byron Allen OWNS The Weather Channel?!? This a-hole from Real People?!?
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Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:26 pm to GEAUXmedic
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In 2020, Allen ended a 5-year campaign against Comcast. After reaching the Supreme Court of the United States, Allen settled a $20 billion legal claim (for racism), achieving carriage agreements for three of his cable channels: Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, and JusticeCentral.TV.[6]
he's an extortionist
Nothing less
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:26 pm to GEAUXmedic
quote:If they had any balls, they'd both tell him they're pulling all advertising from any channel owned by Byron Allen in response to his hostility and threats of legal action.
Allen calls out General Motors and Coca-Cola
But we all know they'll bend the knee and quadruple their ad buying
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:27 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Media mogul Byron Allen
Married to a cracka arse cracka
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:28 pm to GEAUXmedic
What law requires a company to spend money at one media firm over another?
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:28 pm to GEAUXmedic
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But the Supreme Court struck down many of Allen’s arguments last year. Allen’s case was legally significant because it relied on the historic Civil Rights Act of 1866. Enacted a year after the Civil War ended, the law mandated that Black citizens “shall have the same right ... to make and enforce contracts ... as is enjoyed by white citizens.”
In a 9-0 decision in March 2020, the high court said it was not enough for a civil rights plaintiff to assert that his race was one of several factors that motivated a company to refuse to do business with him. Instead, the person must show race was the crucial and deciding factor.
Comcast settled its portion of the lawsuit with Allen last summer, agreeing to carry three of his TV channels on Comcast’s Xfinity system.
Both Philadelphia-based Comcast and Charter, which is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., had denied that they discriminated against Allen because of his race.
Terms of the Charter settlement were not disclosed. Late Wednesday, Allen’s company and Charter released a brief joint statement: “Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks has resolved and withdrawn the lawsuit against Charter Communications.”
Both sides declined to comment further. A spokesman for Allen declined an interview request.
You can be sued for anything I think
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:30 pm to GeauxTigerTM
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Wait...Byron Allen OWNS The Weather Channel?!?
So is he responsible for restricting features on that app so they could start charging a premium for them?
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:31 pm to Sneaky__Sally
these companies settle, because paying the lawyer tabs are just as bad as just buying him off.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:31 pm to Jack Bauers HnK
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What law requires a company to spend money at one media firm over another?
No law. Just like no law requires a business to spend any money at all advertising if they don't want to. Or all of it at one station if that's what they want. This is simply about shaming businesses into doing what he wants, and if they don't cave he'll attempt to force them into compliance by calling them racist. It's extortion.
This is no different than him walking up to your home and asking how much money you personally spend at black owned businesses and telling you if you don't increase it he'll sue you.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:32 pm to stlslick
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these companies settle, because paying the lawyer tabs are just as bad as just buying him off.
I think he also leveraged the Weather Channel to get them to carry a couple shite channels
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:32 pm to GEAUXmedic
The only true systemic racism that exists is against the white American male
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:40 pm to GEAUXmedic
Lunacy.
Burden of proof will be on them to show they offer access to comparable market segments and that prices are comparable. If companies are getting cheaper costs per interaction/view and have better access to target market segments with their current agreements- then there is zero standing.
Burden of proof will be on them to show they offer access to comparable market segments and that prices are comparable. If companies are getting cheaper costs per interaction/view and have better access to target market segments with their current agreements- then there is zero standing.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:56 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Allen calls out General Motors and Coca-Cola as two brands that have a poor track record of working with Black-owned media and companies he has sent letters to asking for change.
Could it be, GM and Coca-Cola would decide to move forward with media companies who are the most qualified to promote their products?
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:58 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Byron Allen
frick that slimy cocksucker
Posted on 3/16/21 at 3:59 pm to cadillac7563
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The only true systemic racism that exists is against the white American male
And yet you have white American males cheering it on and actively voting for it.
I can't stand the stupidity.
Posted on 3/16/21 at 4:03 pm to Sneaky__Sally
quote:How many people of color does he employ on TWC? Seriously, how many meteorologist, storm chasers are AA? Stephanie Abrams types are saturated on the channel.
he also leveraged the Weather Channel
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