NBCUniversal will enter the streaming wars with a service launching in early 2020 that will be run by longtime cable chief Bonnie Hammer. Along with the streaming news, the company set a top-level executive reorganization that gives Mark Lazarus and Jeff Shell significant promotions. Lazarus will have the title of…

NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment chairman Bonnie Hammer said today that the division is restoring the Erase The Hate, a campaign she originally launched 20 years ago when she ran USA Network. The initiative, which won an Emmy, was designed to combat hate and discrimination. It will now air across the entire cable…

Add Craftsy — an education and e-commerce site dedicated to cooking, knitting, photography and other home crafts — to Comcast’s collection of digital investments at NBCUniversal. The company has an agreement to buy a majority stake in the destination, NBCU Cable Entertainment Group Chairman Bonnie Hammer told staffers…

After bringing Bravo, E!, Esquire Network and Oxygen together in the Lifestyle Networks group led by Frances Berwick, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment chairman Bonnie Hammer is making a similar move with the rest of her portfolio. USA, Syfy, Chiller and Cloo are being consolidated into Entertainment Networks…

The Leftovers star Liv Tyler has joined the ongoing conversation about the confluence of ageism and sexism in Hollywood,  fueled this year by a growing number of women working in the entertainment industry who have spoken candidly about the problem. In a lengthy interview with More magazine,  Tyler expressed her…

NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group Chairman Bonnie Hammer recently turned 65, and to commemorate the milestone, she’s penned a frank and enlightening op/ed for Fortune magazine on being older and female in Hollywood. It touches on a topic that has been the subject of much debate lately as studies suggest that the…

Bonnie Hammer, chairman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, has been appointed an independent director on eBay’s Board of Directors. The move, announced on eBay’s blog, comes after Hammer in September joined the board of Barry Diller’s e-commerce power IAC, reteaming her with her former boss at USA Network. Hammer…

Should a corporate board, which is supposed to hold management accountable, include someone who considers the CEO to be her mentor? Governance experts can debate that after Barry Diller’s e-commerce power, IAC, said today that directors elected NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Chairman Bonnie Hammer to the board. Her…

For the first time NBCUniversal bookends Broadcast Upfront Week — culminating in this afternoon’s NBCU Cable Entertainment Group at the Javits Center, including Bravo, E!, Esquire Network, Oxygen, Sprout, Syfy, and USA Network. The presentation will have a hard time topping Joan and Melissa Rivers in the E! Red Carpet…

Charles Kennedy has been named EVP, Research and Insights, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group. Kennedy joins from ABC where he served as SVP of Research. Liz Mahaffey has been named EVP, Brand Strategy, where she'll oversee strategic planning initiatives across the portfolio of networks. Mahaffey has served as EVP…

Bonnie Hammer is officially NBCUniversal‘s cable queen. Hammer, who added E! and G4 to her portfolio of USA, Syfy and Universal Cable Prods after the Comcast merger, is now taking over the combined company’s entire entertainment cable universe including Bravo, Oxygen and Style, which had been under the purview of…

Steve Dolcemaschio, who has been the COO of E! Entertainment for the past six years, has been picked to run NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment’s reality production arm Comcast Entertainment Studio. The unit, which is being renamed early next year, develops and produces reality and topical programs for cable networks…