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Local Now adds 19 NBCU FAST channels

The Allen Media Group digital platform Local Now – the US free-streaming service for local news, weather, sports, traffic, and entertainment – has announced the expansion of its partnership with NBCUniversal. Through this broadened partnership, Local Now adds 11 NBC local news FAST channels, as well as six regional and national Telemundo FAST channels, and […]

September 22, 2023

Nolly Africa HD on Local Now, TheGrio

International pay-TV operator and UK based broadcaster, African Movie Channel, has launched its FAST channel, Nolly Africa HD on US based platforms, Local Now and TheGrio, in a new partnership with Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG). Nolly Africa HD is a 24-hour Nollywood channel showing curated Nollywood movies, series, talk shows and other unscripted content, […]

February 16, 2023

Magnolia Pictures teams with Local Now

Magnolia Pictures, an independent theatrical and home entertainment distributors in the US, and its sister company Spotlight Cinema Networks, have announced its partnership with Allen Media Group’s Local Now – the free streaming service for local news and entertainment in America. Through this new partnership, the duo’s CineLife linear channel is now available to Local […]

July 12, 2022

VEVO launches Christmas services

Music video network Vevo has launched a number of holiday-themed channels on connected TVs (CTV) in the US and UK, available through New Year’s Eve. Vevo’s largest holiday TV lineup to date features carefully curated, 24-hour linear programming ranging from traditional Christmas music, such as Silent Night and O Holy Night, to family classics, such […]

November 18, 2021

Insight TV launches on Local Now

Insight TV, the 4K channel for millennials, has launched on Local Now, the free streaming service owned by Weather Group’s subsidiary of Bryon Allen’s Entertainment Studios, which also owns The Weather Channel. The launch will continue across all of Local Now’s apps in the coming weeks. Local Now, which is available across the US via a […]

November 19, 2020