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About a month and a half after the close of the Viacom-CBS merger, the combined company has finalized the roster of advertising sales executives reporting up to Jo Ann Ross. Last October, Ross was confirmed as the head of sales for the combined company, following a 27-year stretch at CBS, the latter half of which…

Viacom and CBS have set four more executive appointments to the corporate suite of the soon-to-merge entity. The execs, three of whom are currently Viacom employees, will begin their new roles after the close of the merger, which is expected in early December. The company said the announcement makes its executive…

A+E Networks has promoted six executives in its ad sales unit, according to Peter Olsen, EVP of Ad Sales at the cable programmer. "A+E Networks is one of the nimblest portfolios in all of cable with an unrivaled sales team," Olsen said in the official announcement. "We are proud to announce the promotion of six proven…

Discovery has announced the promotions of Loren Ruch, Betsy Ayala and Lynn Sadofsky at HGTV and Food Network. Ruch has been upped to Group SVP of Production & Development for HGTV, based in New York, while Ayala is promoted to SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in Knoxville. Both report to network…

Anyone working at high levels in Hollywood or the media business understands there is always a trapdoor under their feet. In 2018, however, that door swung open with remarkable swiftness and frequency — a byproduct of how high the stakes are in terms of personal conduct and delivering value to shareholders. Larger…

UPDATED with more photos: Take a look at Deadline’s gallery of executives, agents and producers of nominated shows who walked the red carpet Sunday at the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre. Click on the image above to launch the photo gallery. (Photos by Chelsea…

Jake Zim, formerly VP Digital Marketing at 20th Century Fox, has joined Sony Pictures as SVP Digital Marketing. He will report to Worldwide Digital Marketing president Dwight Caines, rounding out Caines’ team of direct reports that includes digital marketers Elias Plishner and Michael Fisk, who run the Media and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Briac (JB) Perrette, president of NBCUniversal Digital & Affiliate Distribution and Content Distribution Strategy, is out. He is the latest top NBCU executive from the previous regime to exit after NBCU and Comcast’s TV properties were realigned under CEO Steve Burke following the company’s merger…

Starz Entertainment has hired longtime HBO executive Russell Schwartz to be its SVP Business & Legal Affairs. He will be based in Los Angeles, where he will help spearhead the company’s growing Starz Originals and TV production business, which has been ramping up under CEO Chris Albrecht, a former colleague at HBO…

A trio of senior NBC Universal executives for Lauren Zalaznick’s Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks have been given expanded responsibilities at the bigger group overseen by Zalaznick post-merger, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media. Cameron Blanchard, previously SVP of…