NBCU Taps Natalie Gee for Asia-Pacific Post

SINGAPORE, May 23: NBC
Universal has appointed Natalie Gee, previously with AETN All Asia Networks, to
the newly created role of creative director of its Global Networks Asia Pacific
division, effective immediately.

Reporting to Raymund
Miranda, the managing director of Global Networks Asia Pacific, Gee will play a
key role in NBC Universal’s strategy to launch new channels across the
Asia-Pacific region over the coming months, as well as in managing the creative
requirements of the existing Global Networks channels. She will lead a team of
creative directors, producers and graphic designers throughout the Asia-Pacific
region and across three channel brands—SCI FI Channel, Universal Channel
and the Hallmark Channel.

A veteran with more than
21 years of broadcast and media experience, Gee was most recently the launch
creative consultant for AETN All Asia Networks, based in Singapore, for the
launches of The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network. Prior to
that, Gee was with Walt Disney Television Asia Pacific for 11 years, starting
as senior producer and rising to become the creative director for the various
Disney-branded channels in the region.

NBC Universal has been
aggressively expanding its business in the Asia-Pacific region through its
Hallmark Channels, as well as the recent launches of both SCI FI Channel in
Japan and the launch into five markets of KidsCo, a joint-venture channel with
DIC Entertainment and Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Enterprises. Earlier this
year, NBCU also announced the acquisition of a share in NDTV Networks in India,
its first entertainment presence in that market.

—By Irene Lew