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As Pop grows its original programming slate, the CBS/Lionsgate-owned network has hired Kent Rees for the newly created position of Chief Marketing Officer. Rees, who moves to Pop from Pivot TV where he served as General Manager, begins his new job August 14, reporting to president Brad Schwartz. Rees will oversee…

There is a change at the top of Participant Media’s Pivot network targeting Millennials. EVP Marketing Kent Rees has been named general manager, reporting to Participant Media CEO Jim Berk. Pivot president Evan Shapiro is leaving. I hear Shapiro, the former president of IFC TV and Sundance Channel, is considering…