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Promotion within Viacom’s Music & Entertainment Group

NEW YORK: Meghann Wu has been elevated to senior VP of strategy and business development for Viacom's music and entertainment group, with a remit that covers MTV, MTV2, Logo, Spike and Comedy Central. Wu will be responsible for strategic planning for MTV, MTV2, Logo, Spike and Comedy Central, while also ...

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NBC Sports Scores 12-Year Deal to Air British Open

LONDON: NBC Sports Group, including NBC and Golf Channel, has become the U.S. home for golf's Open Championship, starting in 2017 through 2028. The agreement with the R&A includes coverage across all media of The Open, The Senior Open, Walker Cup and The Amateur Championship. The coverage will be featured ...

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Muse Entertainment Bolsters L.A. Team

MONTREAL/LOS ANGELES: Muse Entertainment USA has appointed Lydia Storie as VP of development and Meghan Mathes as director of development, while also promoting Scott Clayton to manager of development. The new Los Angeles-based team is responsible for expanding the company's catalogue of scripted television programming, including serialized drama, large-scale event ...

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Turner Broadcasting Debuts New Branded Content Studio

ATLANTA: Turner Broadcasting has unveiled Courageous, a branded content studio that will focus on multimedia "super stories" as well as long-form flagship series. The studio will produce relevant storytelling that meets the marketing objectives of advertising partners. Courageous content will then have the capability to be distributed across CNN's global ...

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Turner Promotes Deborah Bradley to EVP Post

ATLANTA: Deborah Bradley has been elevated to executive VP of networks and programming optimization, content strategy and commercialization for Turner Broadcasting System. Bradley is responsible for all acquisitions, licensing, program planning, scheduling, operations and inventory management for TNT and TBS networks and their digital and mobile platforms. Bradley, who also ...

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Starz Digital Licenses Package to Urban Movie Channel

LOS ANGELES: The SVOD service Urban Movie Channel has picked up more than 40 hours of content from Starz Digital, including the stand-up comedy series Martin Lawrence Presents: First Amendment. Also headed to RLJ Entertainment's subscription-based video streaming service are Phunny Business, featuring comedian Dave Chappelle and the late comedian and ...

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