Allen Media Group FAST channels: The Weather
Channel en Español, Pattrn, and theGrio Television Network
now live on Redbox Free Live TV
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is proud to announce a
new partnership with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
(NASDAQ: CSSE) and its subsidiary company Redbox. The
rapidly growing Redbox Live TV – a free streaming service
available within the Redbox streaming app, featuring more
than 160 channels – now carries three Allen Media Group FAST
channels: The Weather Channel en Español, Pattrn and
theGrio Television Network. Viewers can stream these three
Allen Media Group FAST channels for free on the
Redbox streaming app, which is available on connected TVs
and devices from Roku, Samsung, VIZIO,
LG, and more than a dozen more platforms.
The Weather Channel en Español is the first 24/7
Spanish-language free-streaming weather news network in the United
States, providing weather coverage and news across the U.S., the
Caribbean and Latin America. The network features a variety of
Spanish language forecasts, including locally specific forecasting
and storytelling that helps viewers understand the science behind
weather events, delivered by award-winning meteorologists. The
Weather Channel en Español utilizes the full resources of
The Weather Channel including the network's multiple Emmy®
award-winning immersive mixed reality (IMR) technology.
Pattrn is The Weather Channel brand dedicated to
the environment and climate. Pattrn’s mission is to inform,
educate, inspire, and revel in the patterns of our amazing planet.
It explores Earth’s challenges, celebrates its progress, and
elevates new voices to the conversation. Pattrn features
original reporting, mid-form series and feature-length
documentaries.
TheGrio Television Network features a huge library of
movies, television shows, and news programs that amplify and
celebrate African American culture. TheGrio Television
Network features the world’s biggest stars and global
newsmakers and has been a powerful digital news brand and cultural
hub to tens of millions of consumers for over a decade -- and is
the only Black-owned media platform dedicated to elevating the
voice and culture of African Americans as it relates to breaking
news, politics, health, business, sports and entertainment.
“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Chicken Soup for
the Soul Entertainment,” said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of
Allen Media Group. “The addition of our FAST channels to the Redbox
Live TV lineup enables AMG to expand the reach of life-saving
weather information through The Weather Channel en Español, as well
as climate news featured on Pattrn, and storytelling featured on
theGrio Television Network.”
“Our mission is to provide value-conscious consumers with
ever-growing options that entertain and inform,” said Phil
Oppenheim, chief content officer of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Entertainment. “This new agreement with Allen Media Group continues
to expand our Redbox connected-TV FAST platform with unique and
diverse new channels for our customers.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s Crackle
and Redbox streaming services are currently distributed
through nearly 160 touchpoints in the U.S. on platforms including
Amazon Fire TV, RokuTV, Apple TV, Smart TVs
(Samsung, LG, VIZIO), gaming consoles
(PS4 and Xbox One), Plex, iOS, and
Android mobile devices and on desktops at Crackle.com and
Redbox.com.
ABOUT ALLEN MEDIA GROUP
Chairman and CEO Byron Allen founded Allen Media Group in
1993. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it has offices in New York,
Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. Allen Media Group owns
27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television
stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television
networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER
CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV,
RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV,
THEGRIO TELEVISION NETWORK, THIS TV, and PATTRN.
Allen Media Group also owns the streaming platforms HBCU
GO, THE GRIO STREAMING APP, SPORTS.TV, THE WEATHER CHANNEL
STREAMING APP, and LOCAL NOW--the free-streaming AVOD
service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners,
which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic,
sports, and lifestyle information. Allen Media Group also
produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 72 television
programs, making it one of the largest independent
producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television
programming for broadcast television stations. With a library of
over 5,000 hours of owned content across multiple genres, Allen
Media Group provides video content to broadcast television
stations, cable television networks, mobile devices, and multimedia
digital. Our mission is to provide excellent programming to our
viewers, online users, and Fortune 500 advertising
partners.
ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
ENTERTAINMENT
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) provides
premium content to value-conscious consumers. The company is one of
the largest advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) companies
in the US, with three flagship AVOD streaming services: Redbox,
Crackle, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In addition, the company
operates Redbox Free Live TV, a free ad-supported streaming
television service (FAST), with over 160 channels as well as a
transaction video on demand (TVOD) service, and a network of
approximately 34,000 kiosks across the US for DVD rentals. To
provide original and exclusive content to its viewers, the company
creates, acquires, and distributes films and TV series through its
Screen Media and Chicken Soup for the Soul TV Group subsidiaries.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a subsidiary of Chicken
Soup for the Soul, LLC, which publishes the famous books series and
produces super-premium pet food under the Chicken Soup for the Soul
brand name.
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Allen Media Group Eric Peterkofsky, EVP, Talent &
Public Relations, Allen Media Group, eric@es.tv Ayanna Otite,
Senior Director, Communications/Social Media, Weather Group,
ayanna.otite@weathergroup.com
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