 Las Vegas, NV - NBC
Universal chief Jeff Zucker
will step down from his post, after the completion of the Comcast purchase of NBC Universal... Paul Lee, who as head of ABC Family invigorated the
once-flagging cable channel, has been appointed president of the ABC Entertainment Group. His
responsibilities include the ratings-challenged ABC broadcast network.
In
his new role, Lee will oversee ABC
Studios, as well as development,
programming, marketing and scheduling operations for ABC Entertainment... Paul
Levine, former vp/general manager of local services at Yahoo, has been named president of
new media, Current TV... Steve
Dolcemaschio has been promoted to chief operating officer, Comcast Entertainment Group... Cox Communications has named Leo
Brennan chief operations officer... Jill
Schlesinger has been named editor-at-large at CBS MoneyWatch.com... Dan
Ronayne has been named executive vp and general manager of MSG Networks... Robin
Garfield was named to the newly-created role of
senior vp, CNN Research... CNN political director Sam Feist
has been named vp of the news network’s Washington-based programming...
Ed Carroll has been promoted to COO of Rainbow Entertainment Services... Steven
Sackey has been named vp national advertising sales at TidalTV... Kevin
Bennett has
been elevated to VP of Programming and Development for Discovery Emerging Networks... TLC has named Brent Willman
Chief Financial Officer... Brett Hurwitz, former
VP, Commercial Sales Initiatives for NBC
Universal, has joined ESPN
as VP Ad Sales Operations.. A&E Network has promoted Laura
Fleury to the post of VP of Non-Fiction & Alternative
Programming... NBC has
promoted Shari Post to VP, Prime time ad sales, and hired Dave
Barrington to replace her as VP, Daytime and Late night Sales... Turner Sports has tapped Matthew
Hong as VP/GM, sports digital for the company's new-media
division.. Suzanne Kolb has been elevated to Chief Marketing
Officer, E! and The Style Network; GM, E! Online... AMC has named Joel Stillerman senior
VP of original programming, production and digital content... John Nogawski has
been named President of CBS
Television Distribution. Nogawski, who was
formerly CTD's co-president and chief operating officer, will oversee
all creative, business and administrative operations for CBS' domestic
television division....
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