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After a dramatic few days leading up to A+E’s splashy upfront presentation tonight, the cable programmer largely breezed past all of the corporate drama and put on a focused, 50-minute show emphasizing its networks’ strong bond with women. Abbe Raven, a 34-year A+E veteran who retired from the company in 2015 after…

A+E Networks president and CEO Nancy Dubuc is leaving the company effective April 16. She has been in talks with Vice for the CEO position currently held by co-founder Shane Smith, though it is unclear whether she would end up there. Former CEO of A+E Networks Abbe Raven, who retired from the company in 2015 after 33…

After a rare 33-year stint at the same company, rising from a production assistant to chairman, A+E Networks’ Abbe Raven will retire on February 2. She delivered the news to the company’s staff worldwide in a heartfelt memo you can read in its entirety below. Raven’s departure is the final step in a leadership…

At A&E Television Networks‘ upfront presentation in New York, which is going on right now, the company’s president and CEO Abbe Raven spiced up her speech to advertisers with some snipes at competing networks, including TBS, Discovery Channel, TLC and TruTV. In her remarks, Raven made the point that “if you look at…