Ah, Byron Allen. The vestigial organ of the entertainment industry. On Friday, December 22, 2023 at 10:47:58 AM UTC-5 Mark Jeffries wrote:
> Paramount Global had offered the net earlier this year and got bids from > Byron Allen, Tyler Perry and Sean Combs before they pulled it off the > market, claiming that the bids weren't good enough--now, on the same day > that it's revealed that Paramount and Warner Bros. DIscovery are > considering a merger, Allen returns with a bid of $3.5B (up from $2.7B last > time) for BET, VH1, the BET Studios production company and streamer BET+: > > > https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/byron-allen-bet-acquisition-offer-paramount-1235847887/#recipient_hashed=f5e94582f853e2a2938695bf146cde6b06becc765ef87c282ad28332998524e4&recipient_salt=8969 > > It's probably a coincidence that Paramount has pulled off VH1 (which was > moved from the Paramount Networks division to BET some time ago) "RuPaul's > Drag Race" and the "Love and Hip-Hop" franchise that were the channel's > main drawing cards and moved them to MTV, but still... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/84ed29da-2057-496f-a8e9-b0fa7242b819n%40googlegroups.com.