{"id":5842,"date":"2014-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2014\/07\/15\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Style Media&#8217;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tBURBANK: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network&#039;s new executive VP of strategy and programming.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tColeman Smith will work under Tom Ascheim, the president of ABC Family. Her duties include overseeing long-term growth strategies and opportunities for the channel, including key business and creative partnerships and multiplatform content expansion. She will manage strategy, new business development, program planning and acquisitions on all platforms. She will also collaborate with the Disney-ABC Television Group leadership team to evaluate and formulate new initiatives for ABC Family.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMost recently, Coleman Smith was the president of strategic initiatives for NBCUniversal&#039;s cable entertainment group. Before that, she spent a half decade as president of Style Media. She first joined Comcast in 2003 as the senior VP of programming for E! Entertainment and Style Network. Earlier in her career, Coleman Smith served as MTV Networks&#039; VP of programming for Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAscheim remarked: &quot;Salaam is an all-around great executive and a great person who will bring new insights and ideas to our team as we ready ourselves for substantial growth in today&rsquo;s complex marketplace. She also has extensive experience in building businesses and brands, connecting with audiences, and growing revenue that will maximize our opportunities for success. I&#039;m thrilled she is joining our team.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tColeman Smith added: &quot;I am a huge fan of ABC Family. It&#039;s a top five cable network with a proven track record of delivering compelling and emotionally-riveting content to a large and loyal audience of young, enthusiastic, digitally savvy viewers. I am excited about Tom&#039;s transformative vision for growing this business, and I look forward to partnering with him and the ABC Family team to engage this audience in new and exciting ways.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURBANK: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network&#039;s new executive VP of strategy and programming. Coleman Smith will work under Tom Ascheim, the president of ABC Family. Her duties include overseeing long-term growth strategies and opportunities for the channel, including key business and creative partnerships and multiplatform &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Style Media&#039;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Style Media&#039;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role. BURBANK, July 15: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network&#039;s new executive VP of strategy and programming.. Author - Joanna Padovano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Style Media&#039;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Style Media&#039;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role. BURBANK, July 15: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network&#039;s new executive VP of strategy and programming.. Author - Joanna Padovano\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVUSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/\",\"name\":\"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\"},\"description\":\"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role. BURBANK, July 15: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network's new executive VP of strategy and programming.. Author - Joanna Padovano\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Style Media&#8217;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/\",\"name\":\"TVUSA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\",\"name\":\"World Screen\",\"description\":\"The leading source of information for the international media business.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role","description":"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role. BURBANK, July 15: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network's new executive VP of strategy and programming.. Author - Joanna Padovano","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role","og_description":"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role. BURBANK, July 15: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network's new executive VP of strategy and programming.. Author - Joanna Padovano","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/","og_site_name":"TVUSA","article_published_time":"2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg"}],"author":"World Screen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"World Screen","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/","name":"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7"},"description":"Style Media's Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role. BURBANK, July 15: ABC Family has appointed Salaam Coleman Smith, former president of Style Media, as the network's new executive VP of strategy and programming.. Author - Joanna Padovano","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/style-medias-salaam-coleman-smith-tapped-for-abc-family-role\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Style Media&#8217;s Salaam Coleman Smith Tapped for ABC Family Role"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/","name":"TVUSA","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7","name":"World Screen","description":"The leading source of information for the international media business.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}