Byron Allen acquired The Weather Channel three year ago, gathered scientists at its Atlanta campus and asked “Are we in trouble?”After an unequivocal yes, “I decided not to be Switzerland,” the founder Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios told TCA Tuesday.
Environmental journalists face pressure to avoid offending climate change non-believers. But “I am going to go with the scientists, because people don’t understand that global warming is the greatest threat to planet earth.” Hurricanes, fires and other weather events can’t be covered in a vacuum. “Having The Weather Channel is really a big responsibility,” he said.That $300 million deal was part of a string of acquisitions by Allen, one of the nation’s most successful Black