Comcast settled a long-running a long-running racial discrimination dispute with black media mogul Byron Allen, agreeing to add three of Allen’s channels to its cable packages.
Allen sued Comcast for $20 billion in 2015 for refusing to carry seven of his networks, saying it was because of his race.
The Supreme Court said Allen had to show race was the decisive factor in Comcast’s decision not to offer him a contract, not one of several factors.
Comcast and Allen’s company, Entertainment Studios Networks, said Wednesday that Comcast would include the channels Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV and JusticeCentral.TV in its cable packages.
Comcast said it would “put the full weight of our company’s media resources behind highlighting Black voices and Black stories.”
