BBC.com Investing In Journalism With A New U.S. Edition
New York, NY – BBC.com, the award-winning top ten news site, is investing in journalism and ramping up its coverage of news and sports, travel, technology, business and entertainment. With triple revenue growth in the last financial year (ending March 31, 2010) and over 16m* unique users, BBC.com, today launched its U.S. edition and new…
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BBC.com Builds On A Strong Year – UPS Key Business Executives
New York, NY – Continuing its investment and commitment in the U.S., BBC.com has promoted two of its key business executives. Based in New York, Miranda Cresswell has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Strategy & Operations BBC.com with Joy Chilowicz upped to Vice President, U.S. Ad Sales, BBC.com. Webby award-winning, BBC.com, provides in depth…
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Herb Scannell Named President Of BBC Worldwide America
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New York, NY – BBC Worldwide today appointed Herb Scannell as President, BBC Worldwide America, responsible for the company’s U.S. operations. His appointment is effective immediately. Formerly President of Nickelodeon Networks and Vice Chairman of MTV Networks, Scannell was most recently CEO of Next New Networks, a digital media company he co-founded in 2006. In…
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Paul Davis-Miller Named Senior Vice President, Fiction For BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution
New York, NY – BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, today appointed Paul Davis-Miller to the newly created post of SVP Fiction, for the Sales & Distribution division. Davis-Miller will be based in the New York office, reporting to Matt Forde, EVP Sales & Co-Productions, BBC Worldwide, Americas. Davis-Miller is the second key…
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BBC Worldwide Appoints Greg Johnson To New Role Of Senior Vice President, Factual
New York, NY – BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, today appointed Greg Johnson to the position of Senior Vice President, Factual, Sales & Distribution for BBC Worldwide, Americas. Johnson will be based in New York and report to Matt Forde, EVP Sales & Co-Productions, BBC Worldwide, Americas. His appointment is part of…
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BBC Worldwide Productions Expands Scripted Development Team
Los Angeles, CA – BBC Worldwide Productions today announced that veteran AMC commissioner Vlad Wolynetz will be joining the team as Senior Vice President, Scripted Production, starting next month. He joins Hugh Fitzpatrick who came from William Morris Endeavor to become Vice President, Scripted Programming, earlier this month. Vlad and Hugh will join the scripted…
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Gareth Williams To Oversee Production In South America For BBC Worldwide
London, UK – BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, today advanced Gareth Williams to SVP of Content & Production, South America. Formerly Director of New Programming at BBC Worldwide, Williams will continue to report into the VP of International Production, based in London. Working closely with GP Media in Argentina and Mixer in…
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Building On A Strong Year – Promotions For The BBC’s Ad Sales Team
New York, NY – The BBC’s U.S. national ad sales business, led by Mark Gall, Senior VP, BBC AMERICA & BBC.com, has upped two of its top leadership team. Melissa Drucker and Peter Wright have been promoted to VP, National Ad Sales. Based in New York, they co-lead on BBC AMERICA. The BBC has ad…
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BBC Worldwide Productions Boosts Development Team
North Hollywood, CA – Jane Tranter, EVP, Programming & Production, BBC Worldwide Productions, today announced the appointment of Izzie Pick as Vice President, Programming Development. Based in North Hollywood, Izzie reports to John Hesling, SVP, Programming, BBC Worldwide Productions. In her role, Izzie manages the company’s talent department and works with the unscripted development team…
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