EXCLUSIVE: Allen Media Group is shuttering The Climate Channel en Español at 12 months finish, the newest hit in a spherical of belt-tightening.
“As a part of Allen Media Group’s intensive cost-cutting measures, The Climate Channel en Español will stop operations on December 31, 2024,” AMG stated in a press release to Deadline on Monday.
The transfer is the newest in a string of measures to chop prices. Earlier this month, the corporate owned by Byron Allen stated Pattrn, a climate-themed FAST channel owned by AMG, will cease programming subsequent month, returning to its social media roots and retaining a weekend TV presence on The Weather Channel.
In October, AMG had a round of layoffs with the exits of key members of its climate, information and sports activities groups, impacting The Climate Channel, its AVOD service HBCU Go in addition to its Leisure Studios and advert gross sales divisions.
The corporate earlier announced layoffs last spring with 2024 a 12 months of dramatic layoffs at media corporations of all sizes largely because of declining viewership of linear tv, the place AMG is closely invested.
It stated then it was “making strategic modifications to higher place the corporate for development that may lead to expense and workforce reductions throughout all divisions of the corporate. Allen Media Group’s manufacturers proceed to carry out properly and in lots of areas our income development has vastly outpaced the market. We’re aligning these modifications to drive future enterprise alternatives and help our development methods in our quickly evolving business.”
Privately operated AMG owns 36 ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox community affiliate broadcast tv stations in 21 U.S. markets; digital community TheGrio; and a movement image division that features a distribution arm.
In accordance with the web site of AMG’s Climate Group, The Weather Channel en Español community was the primary 24/7 Spanish-language free-streaming climate information community within the U.S., offering climate protection and information throughout the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America.
