RHI Entertainment Appoints New Advertising Sales Executive

NEW YORK, May 21: RHI Entertainment has appointed former GSN
executive Russell Maitland to the newly created position of senior VP of
advertising sales.

Based in New York, Maitland, who has already assumed the
post, will be responsible for leading RHI’s sales efforts associated with ION
Media Networks, video-on-demand and additional RHI platforms, both in
traditional and new media. His new sales team includes account executives John
Carlo, Stacy Gelt and Andrew Wisnewski.

Prior to RHI Entertainment, Maitland was most recently the
VP of the Eastern Region for GSN. Before that, he served a six-year stint in
various senior sales management positions with Fox Cable Networks.