Long-time TV communications executive Richard Licata has launched Licata & Co.— The Awards Agency, a full service TV awards company with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Licata & Co. will create and execute award campaigns for broadcast, cable and streaming original programs, talent and craft…

After three decades in the trenches, veteran communications executive Richard Licata is leaving the daily grind of corporate PR. Licata is exiting his current post as EVP Communications for NBC Entertainment. This was the fourth consecutive high-level network PR job for Licata, who helped brand HBO and Fox before…

Emmy balloting starts Monday and continues through June 20, and you would have to be living under a rock — or somewhere other than Los Angeles or New York — not to be aware that we are in the midst of perhaps the most massive, widespread Emmy campaigning ever. Is it me or has this Emmy season even seemed to eclipse…

In his first executive hire, NBC Entertainment’s EVP Communications Richard Licata has brought in a former member of his team at Showtime. Dianne Hatlestad, who exited Showtime in the recent restructuring of the network’s communications department under new head Trisha Cardoso, has joined her old boss as VP Talent…

NBC PR veteran Rebecca Marks, who has served as EVP, NBC Entertainment Publicity since 2004, has extended her contract and will remain with the company. She reports to Richard Licata, who joined last summer as EVP Communications, NBC Entertainment. Marks will continue to oversee day-to-day publicity efforts for NBC’s…

In anticipation of Showtime Network’s head of marketing Len Fogge re-joining former Showtime Entertainment president Robert Greenblatt at NBC, the pay cable network has restructured its marketing team, elevating Frank Pintauro and Donald Buckley to EVP and co-heads of the department. Fogge, EVP creative, marketing…

EXCLUSIVE: After months of speculation, its official: Showtime’s long-time PR head Richard Licata is following his former boss Robert Greenblatt to NBC. Licata has been named to the newly created post of EVP Communications for NBC Entertainment, reporting to Entertainment Chairman Greenblatt. He is expected to start…