Byron Allen
speaker
1,049 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Byron Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I will sell the advertising time.
I have close to 2000 employees.
Several hundred of them do nothing but sell advertising time for me.
I have over 700 relationships directly with advertisers.
So I will take over that two-hour block.
Two hours per night, Comics Unleashed, one hour.
Funny You Should Ask, our comedy game show, one hour.
Two hours per night, 10 hours per week, 520 hours per year, making us the largest provider of network content to the number one network, 520 hours.
I tell everybody, Don, I'm a 65-year-old overnight sensation, but I could not do that unless I had built this foundation where we have the infrastructure to create, finance, produce, and distribute the content and monetize it globally.
That is how it came about.
And I was one of the few people on the planet that could save CBS approximately
160 million in production between the two shows.
Stephen Colbert, they were spending about 110, 120.
And then Corden, they were spending about 40.
And I said, keep that money in your pocket, plus I'll pay you.
And as this industry is going through a transition, this is a good move for both of us.
It's business show, not show business.
We made history in 100 years.
We've never had anybody come along and do that.
In 100 years, we've never had a black person at 1135 on ABC, NBC, CBS.
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