Entertainment Studios Pushes Charter/TWC Diversity Condition

Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks continues to push for Charter/Time Warner Cable shelf space for 100% African American-owned media (AAOM) networks even as a deal vote looms. In an ex parte filing to the Federal Communications Commission April 27, David Goodfriend, who is representing Allen and the National Association of African American-Owned Media (NAAAOM), said he had met with David Grossman, chief of staff to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, on April 26 to talk about the apparent lack of specific diversity-related conditions in FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal to approve the deal with conditions.