Appointment
Deborah K. Bradley has joined A+E Networks in the newly formed role of executive VP of global content sales, reporting into Mark Garner, executive VP of content sales and business development. Based in Atlanta, Bradley will oversee the team responsible for licensing original and existing content to A+E Networks’ global streaming partners and all U.S. linear and non-linear platforms. The executive is responsible for expanding A+E’s presence across multi-media third party platforms and is also charged with expanding the distribution of A+E’s growing Fast channel portfolio.
Bradley joins from The Amherst Group, a financial advisory firm specializing in real estate with 22 billion in assets, where she most recently served as president of their retail division and head of corporate marketing and brand reputation. The executive has had previous stints at Turner Entertainment, CBS Television Distribution and Paramount Domestic Television.
“Throughout her career, Deb...
Deborah K. Bradley has joined A+E Networks in the newly formed role of executive VP of global content sales, reporting into Mark Garner, executive VP of content sales and business development. Based in Atlanta, Bradley will oversee the team responsible for licensing original and existing content to A+E Networks’ global streaming partners and all U.S. linear and non-linear platforms. The executive is responsible for expanding A+E’s presence across multi-media third party platforms and is also charged with expanding the distribution of A+E’s growing Fast channel portfolio.
Bradley joins from The Amherst Group, a financial advisory firm specializing in real estate with 22 billion in assets, where she most recently served as president of their retail division and head of corporate marketing and brand reputation. The executive has had previous stints at Turner Entertainment, CBS Television Distribution and Paramount Domestic Television.
“Throughout her career, Deb...
- 1/24/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Millennial and Gen Z consumers watch less traditional television than their elders, and the pay-tv sector continues to face a seeming death by a thousand cuts with the steady sting of cord-cutting: A projected 6.6 million U.S. households are expected to have canceled pay-tv service by the end of 2020.
Amid this challenging backdrop, what’s a cable programmer like A+E Networks — whose core business relies on cable and satellite affiliate fees and TV ad revenue — to do?
This year, A+E has doubled down on a digital strategy with Snap, aimed at cultivating new fans. A+E Networks, a 50-50 joint venture of Disney and Hearst, says it has found success in reaching new, younger-skewing audiences by expanding its distribution of free 5-8 minute clips of select TV show franchises on the fast-growing Snapchat app.
According to A+E, the free content has drawn millions of unique viewers for unscripted shows,...
Amid this challenging backdrop, what’s a cable programmer like A+E Networks — whose core business relies on cable and satellite affiliate fees and TV ad revenue — to do?
This year, A+E has doubled down on a digital strategy with Snap, aimed at cultivating new fans. A+E Networks, a 50-50 joint venture of Disney and Hearst, says it has found success in reaching new, younger-skewing audiences by expanding its distribution of free 5-8 minute clips of select TV show franchises on the fast-growing Snapchat app.
According to A+E, the free content has drawn millions of unique viewers for unscripted shows,...
- 11/2/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, A+E Networks’ History and podcast company Cadence13 have teamed up for a five-part audio docuseries.
Meacham, who has written books including The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross and The Soul of America, is writing and narrating Hope, Through History.
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The series will explore five defining moments in time when America’s leaders and citizens were forced to confront crises of historic magnitude, offering a portrait of the events and an overview of how they impacted the economy and culture, and how the country came together.
It will look at the 1918 Flu Pandemic,...
Meacham, who has written books including The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross and The Soul of America, is writing and narrating Hope, Through History.
More from DeadlineA+E Networks' 'America's Top Dog' Optioned In The UK & Ireland By Two Rivers MediaA+E Networks Ad Sales Chief On Covid 19-Impacted Upfronts, 'Live Pd's' Return, TV Advertising And What's Next'Gangster Capitalism': NRA To Be Focus Of Season 2 Of Documentary Podcast Series From C13Originals
The series will explore five defining moments in time when America’s leaders and citizens were forced to confront crises of historic magnitude, offering a portrait of the events and an overview of how they impacted the economy and culture, and how the country came together.
It will look at the 1918 Flu Pandemic,...
- 4/16/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A+E Networks has named Fox veteran Steve MacDonald president of its global content licensing and international division, Variety has learned. There, he will oversee the company’s multi-platform and library content licensing initiatives and international activities.
“MacDonald is a highly accomplished sales executive who has been a major force behind many of the most innovative and revenue-rich media content transactions in the entertainment industry,” said A+E Networks Groups president Paul Buccieri, to whom MacDonald will report. “His innate talent for unearthing revenue potential within media assets is the precise skill we require as we continue to evolve our company.”
MacDonald was most recently at Twentieth Television, where he spent 24 years, ultimately rising to the position of executive vice president, general sales manager of basic cable, with oversight of broadcast syndication. During his time there, he steered Twentieth’s revenue growth strategy, driving content licensing sales for domestic off-net syndication of sitcoms,...
“MacDonald is a highly accomplished sales executive who has been a major force behind many of the most innovative and revenue-rich media content transactions in the entertainment industry,” said A+E Networks Groups president Paul Buccieri, to whom MacDonald will report. “His innate talent for unearthing revenue potential within media assets is the precise skill we require as we continue to evolve our company.”
MacDonald was most recently at Twentieth Television, where he spent 24 years, ultimately rising to the position of executive vice president, general sales manager of basic cable, with oversight of broadcast syndication. During his time there, he steered Twentieth’s revenue growth strategy, driving content licensing sales for domestic off-net syndication of sitcoms,...
- 10/3/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
The future of media, tech and advertising were the hot-button topics at the Variety Entertainment Summit at CES, which featured a speaker lineup of more than 40 business leaders, entertainers and entrepreneurs.
Here are 10 key takeaways from the full-day event, held Wednesday at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas:
Steve Harvey has broken up with NBC. Harvey revealed that he felt snubbed when NBCUniversal announced a new talk show with Kelly Clarkson that it plans to strip across NBC-owned stations starting in the fall of 2019. His syndicated talk show, “Steve,” is no longer being distributed by NBCU. Img, which produces the show in partnership with Harvey, is shopping the talker around to multiple outlets, sources confirmed to Variety. “I gotta make announcements too,” Harvey told the audience. “It will be something real cute.”
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish downplayed the urgency to merge with CBS. Bakish, asked about a major...
Here are 10 key takeaways from the full-day event, held Wednesday at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas:
Steve Harvey has broken up with NBC. Harvey revealed that he felt snubbed when NBCUniversal announced a new talk show with Kelly Clarkson that it plans to strip across NBC-owned stations starting in the fall of 2019. His syndicated talk show, “Steve,” is no longer being distributed by NBCU. Img, which produces the show in partnership with Harvey, is shopping the talker around to multiple outlets, sources confirmed to Variety. “I gotta make announcements too,” Harvey told the audience. “It will be something real cute.”
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish downplayed the urgency to merge with CBS. Bakish, asked about a major...
- 1/10/2019
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
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