Entertainment Production

Allen began his own production company, BYCA Productions, and his own distribution company, BYCA Distribution. He worked on two additional projects: Jammin' 91, a music video countdown program, and Superstars with David Sheehan.

Allen launched Entertainment Studios in 1993 and continues to maintain 100% ownership, boasting 1 billion dollars in assets and nearly 80 million subscribers. Allen has over 40 shows on television, many low-cost and housed on his HD networks, both on the network and in syndication. His company, Entertainment Studios, is now the largest independent production company of TV programs. Allen's company produces programs that include The Young Icons, Beautiful Homes and Great Estates, Comics Unleashed, and America's Court With Judge Ross.

Entertainment Studios is a fully integrated global media production and distribution company with eight HD networks, dozens of first-run syndicated shows, over 5,000 hours of HD programming, a film distribution company, and a podcast network. Entertainment Studios offers shows to networks in exchange for 50 percent of ad time, contrary to how many other production companies operate by licensing shows for cash. Allen makes 100 million dollars in revenue each year with this method. In addition to the programs produced by Entertainment Studios, Allen owns seven 24-hour HD networks, including Cars.TV, Pets.TV, Comedy.TV, and Justice Central. Scripted programming began in 2012, including two sitcoms: The First Family and Mr. Box Office. In 2015, he also acquired Freestyle Releasing, an independent film distributor.

Allen has found success in films and is the first African-American owner of a movie studio releasing theatrical films. Most notably, Allen bought his first feature release, 47 Meters Down, a shark thriller that was doomed to be released straight to DVD in 2017, for which he spent 30 million dollars on advertising. It became the year's most successful indie film, pulling in 44 million dollars in the United States. Allen also acquired three more films, including a Western starring Christian Bale titled Hostiles. Two bids Allen made for other movies, Birth of a Nation and Mudbound, were ultimately unsuccessful. Allen has acquired Chappaquiddick, a Ted Kennedy expose, and Replicas starring Keanu Reeves.

Allen was involved in a 10 billion dollar racial discrimination lawsuit filed against Charter Communications, claiming racial bias has hindered Allen and other black media owners from licensing their networks. A similar case was filed in 2015 against AT&T, which had promised to distribute Allen's networks on U-Verse and DirecTV.