{"id":8489,"date":"2018-01-25T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/stephen-espinoza-moves-showtime-networks\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:49:00","slug":"stephen-espinoza-moves-up-at-showtime-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/stephen-espinoza-moves-up-at-showtime-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Espinoza Moves Up at Showtime Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime Networks has elevated Stephen Espinoza to president of sports and event programming.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Espinoza will continue to develop and execute the overall strategy of the group, working out of New York under David Nevins, the president and CEO of Showtime Networks.<\/p>\n<p>As head of Showtime Sports, Espinoza oversees the day-to-day activities of the sports and event group, including its pay-per-view unit. He manages the production of the channel&#8217;s original sports series and docs, as well as the acquisition and licensing of all other Showtime and pay-per-view sports and event programming.<\/p>\n<p>Before being hired by Showtime in 2011, Espinoza was a partner in the firm of Ziffren Brittenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply stated, Stephen is the heavyweight champion of his profession,\u201d stated Nevins. \u201cHe is an innovator\u2014equal parts thoughtful and tenacious\u2014who has turned Showtime boxing into the market-leader, while also driving excellence in our documentaries and sports series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime Networks has elevated Stephen Espinoza to president of sports and event programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":8490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[781,1628],"class_list":["post-8489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-showtime-networks","tag-stephen-espinoza"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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