{"id":7328,"date":"2016-09-21T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/discovery-hires-for-ott-post\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:02:08","slug":"discovery-hires-for-ott-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/discovery-hires-for-ott-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Hires for OTT Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Discovery Communications has named Michael Bishara as senior VP and general manager for OTT and digital syndication.<\/p>\n<p>Bishara will lead Discovery\u2019s OTT initiatives as well as the digital businesses for VOD, download-to-own, home video and short-form video syndication. He will be tasked with growing revenue and audiences across the company\u2019s digital portfolio. Prior to joining Discovery, Bishara served as senior VP of digital products and general manager of OTT and TV Everywhere for Synacor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael is an accomplished executive whose \u2018first in the industry\u2019 experience with early iterations and evolutions of OTT products has provided him with an intimate knowledge of how to develop, launch and optimize a product,\u201d said Karen Leever, the executive VP and general manager of Discovery Digital Media at Discovery Communications, to whom Michael reports. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have him on the team, and are looking forward to engaging even more audiences with our award-winning content in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscovery Communications is uniquely positioned in digital with its strong portfolio of brands\u2014and consumers\u2019 deep engagement with them,\u201d added Bishara. \u201cI look forward to working with such an incredible team and am excited by the tremendous opportunity to extend these brands and deliver new experiences while simultaneously driving incremental revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Discovery Communications has named Michael Bishara as senior VP and general manager for OTT and digital syndication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[113,930],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-discovery-communications","tag-michael-bishara"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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