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Mark Feldman will remain as president and CEO of GSN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring Game Show Network fully into the Sony Pictures Entertainment portfolio,\u201d said Mike Hopkins, chairman of Sony Pictures Television. \u201cThe acquisition allows us to work more closely with the company\u2019s talented team to deliver the best iconic game shows, develop and syndicate new game show IP for audiences across the nation, as well as to advance the fast-growing GSN Games business, all of which directly aligns with our strategy of developing targeted direct-to-consumer offerings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has bought AT&#038;T&#8217;s interest in Game Show Network (GSN), taking 100 percent control of the U.S. cable network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":9660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2261,2262],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-game-show-network","tag-sony-pictures-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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