As part of the Allen Media Group owned by media personality Byron Allen, AMB owns and operates 28 TV stations nationwide, covering all four commercial networks. AMG acquired The Weather Channel, part of The Weather Group, in a deal worth $300 million in 2018 and the “groundbreaking format” has been in Beta for several years, according to AMG.

Allen Media Group is laying off most of its local TV weather forecasters and will centralize regional weather reporting from its Atlanta studios of The Weather Channel. This article, Allen Media laying off local TV weather forecasters,

ABC 33/40′s James Spann shared more of his thoughts Monday night on news that Allen Media Broadcasting “laid off every single meteorologist” in cities nationwide in favor of the Weather Channel. Spann said he “feels so badly for those who lost their jobs …. I know it’s traumatic when you lose a job.”

Bringing live and local newscasts includes detailed reports from staff meteorologists — an increasingly important feature of stations in markets across the U.S. where weather threats may lead many to broadcast TV.