RHI Taps FitzPatrick to Lead Digital Efforts

NEW YORK, July 27: RHI Entertainment has appointed Paul
FitzPatrick to the newly created position of executive VP, where he will
oversee all of the company’s new-media initiatives.

FitzPatrick will also serve as RHI’s principal liaison with
the multichannel industry and will work on a variety of corporate ventures.
Most recently, he consulted with RHI on its foray into new media, following his
tenure as executive VP and COO of Crown Media Holdings, the owner and operator
of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel. Prior to joining Crown Media,
FitzPatrick served as COO of the Golf Channel and as president of The Weather
Channel and NewsTalk Television, a network he founded and launched in the early
‘90s. In the 1980s, FitzPatrick was president of the Cable Satellite Public
Affairs Networks (C-SPAN). Before that, FitzPatrick worked in publishing,
serving as the editor-in-chief and COO of Denver-based Titsch Publishing.