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Sony-Owned GSN Ups Longtime Exec John Zaccario To President, Succeeding Mark Feldman Amid Mobile Gaming Unit Sale
GSN, the game-focused media brand owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, has promoted longtime sales chief John Zaccario to the position of president.
Zaccario, a 13-year company veteran who had held the title of EVP of Ad Sales, succeeds Mark Feldman, who left to join Scopely after the company acquired the GSN Games…
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Sony Acquires AT&T’s 42% Game Show Network Stake In Deal Worth $500M
Sony has acquired AT&T’s 42% stake in Game Show Network in a transaction with a total value of $500 million.
After the deal, Sony will own 100% of the multimedia entertainment company, whose offerings are anchored by its namesake cable network, which airs original and classic game programming. Game Show Network…
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‘America Says’ Game Show Cleared In 85% Of U.S. For Fall Syndication Launch
GSN’s hit game show America Says is heading into syndication. Sony Pictures Television, co-owner of GSN, has partnered with the network to launch the game show in syndication nationwide this fall.
Fox, Sinclair, CBS, Cox Media, Tegna, Nexstar, Mission, Gray and Lockwood station groups have agreed to carry the show…
GSN Renews ‘Snap Decision’, Greenlights Two New Strip Series, More — Upfront
GSN has renewed freshman hit Snap Decision for a second season and greenlit two new strip series, America Says (working title) and Caroline & Friends, hosted by Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum Caroline Rhea, the network announced Monday at its 2018 Upfront in New York City.
In addition, GSN has picked up Cover Story…
GSN Names Fran Shea Head Of Programming & Marketing
GSN has named Fran Shea to the unusual hybrid role of head of both programming and marketing. Shea, who has been appointed as EVP, Programming and Marketing, will report to GSN CEO Mark Feldman and will be based in the company's Santa Monica office.
Shea fills the void left by the recent departure of GSN EVP…
Mark Feldman Game For GSN President-CEO Job
GSN, the company comprising GSN TV and GSN Games, has promoted Mark Feldman to president and CEO. The former EVP and general counsel replaces David Goodhill, who announced in April that he was exiting after a decade as CEO.
Feldman joined GSN in 2008 and has been responsible for legal & business affairs, business…
‘Snap Decision’ Game Show Hosted By David Alan Grier To Air On GSN & In Broadcast Syndication At the Same Time
GSN and Sinclair Broadcast Group have teamed to introduce a new distribution model. They will share Snap Decision, a new comedic half-hour game show hosted by The Carmichael Show‘s David Alan Grier, which will launch simultaneously on cable network GSN and in broadcast syndication on Sinclair stations nationwide.
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GSN CEO David Goldhill Steps Down
GSN CEO David Goldhill has announced he will be leaving the company after a 10-year stint as chief executive. A search is underway for a new CEO of the cable network, a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television, which has a majority interest, and AT&T Entertainment Group.
Goldhill, former president of the…
GSN Renews ‘Winsanity’ & ‘Divided’; Greenlights New Emoji Game Show – Upfronts
GSN has announced Season 2 renewals for its hit series Winsanity and Divided and the greenlight of new Emoji-focused game show Emogenius as part of its 2017 upfront slate. The network also has four projects in development, including Blast Your Past. executive produced by Andy Cohen, in which celebrities poke fun at…
Show For Our Time? GSN To Launch New Series ‘Divided’ Hours Before Inauguration
GSN has formally ordered Divided, a new game show/social experiment hybrid series from John de Mol’s Talpa Media USA. The show, in which a team of complete strangers has to agree on the same answer and then on the size of everyone’s cut in order to win prize money, will debut at 9 PM on January 19, the day before the…
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GSN Will Play ‘Winsanity’ With Host Donald Faison
EXCLUSIVE: GSN has a new game to play. The cable net has greenlighted 40 episodes of Winsanity, a half-hour game show from Electus in which contestants try to rank facts in numerical order. Hosted by Scrubs alum Donald Faison, the series is set to begin production early next year.
An example of the ranking…
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GSN Greenlights ‘Skin Wars’ Spinoff Series For 2016
GSN is expanding its Skin Wars franchise. The network has ordered eight hourlong episodes of spinoff series Skin Wars: Fresh Paint, with Skin Wars’ judge RuPaul Charles set as host.
Skin Wars: Fresh Paint, which first aired as a one-hour special on August 26, features three of Skin Wars' top former contestants who…
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