Warner Bros. Television Group Ups Bouttier

BURBANK, May 9: Brett Bouttier has been promoted to the
newly created position of senior VP of digital at Warner Bros. Television Group
(WBTVG), reporting to Craig Hunegs, the executive VP of business management at
WBTVG.

In the new role, based in Burbank, Bouttier will be
responsible for the U.S. digital distribution of WBTVG’s current, library and
original digital content as well as the business execution for all of WBTVG’s
new media initiatives. He will work closely with the WBTVG senior executive
team and its divisional presidents in shaping the group’s overall digital
content and U.S. distribution strategy, negotiating distribution arrangements
with new media platforms and managing the strategy and business development of
branded, interactive entertainment and social destinations for broadband and
wireless.

Prior to his promotion, Bouttier had served as the VP of new
business and sales strategy for WBTVG’s Telepictures Productions. In that role,
he has overseen a number of new media deals, including wireless agreements for
many of Telepictures’ series; partner and product integration into series,
notably a wide-ranging deal with The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Sprint; securing licensing deals for Ellen and Tyra with
XM Satellite radio, and redesigning the websites for all of Telepictures’
series. Bouttier was also a key member of the team that launched and expanded
TMZ.com, which has quickly become the number-one entertainment news destination
on the Internet and expand to a daily television series this fall. Prior to
Telepictures, Bouttier had served as the VP of cable sales and strategy at NBC
Universal Television.