Allen Media Group Ups Andrew Temple To COO Of Broadcast Sales & Syndication

Allen Media Group (AMG) on Monday promoted Andrew Temple to chief operating officer of broadcast sales & syndication from his previous title of president of domestic television distribution. Temple will continue to oversee all broadcast television syndication and distribution of AMG’s 70 television series and will also be responsible for the AMG over-the-air broadcast networks This TV and The Grio Television Network, as well as operations/distribution for AMG’s HBCU GO, a streaming platform that features football, men and women’s basketball, baseball and track and field.

Temple began his tenure at AMG more than 25 years ago, in October of 1997.

Byron Allen, founder/chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group, said: “Andrew Temple is an outstanding executive, salesperson and team leader. After 25 years of working here at Allen Media Group, Andrew Temple is well-prepared to be a phenomenal Chief Operating Officer of Broadcast Sales & Syndication. Andrew’s talent and unwavering work ethic will continue to grow our television programming syndication and broadcast network divisions for years to come.”

Temple said: “It has been an honor to work with and be personally trained and mentored by Mr. Byron Allen for the last 25 years. To be able to work and collaborate with the remarkably talented professionals at Allen Media Group has been the privilege of a lifetime.”

Temple is a military veteran who served in the U.S. Army during The Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91.