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David Haslingden To Step Down As President, COO Fox Networks Group

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 10:37am PDTTags: Fox Networks Group

NEW YORK – August 15, 2012 – News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced that David Haslingden, who has served as President and COO of Fox Networks Group since January 2011, has decided to step down at the end of the calendar year in order to return to his native Australia and spend more time with his family.

Mr. Haslingden was instrumental in the creation and growth of Fox International Channels (FIC), a business unit that now encompasses more than 350 channels in over 55 countries. Prior to his current role, he was CEO of both FIC and National Geographic Channels Worldwide for more than 10 years, and has served News Corporation in a variety of executive roles in the U.S., Asia, Australia and Europe over the past two decades. READ MORE »

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News Corp Fast-Tracks Peter Rice To Fox Networks Group As Chairman & CEO

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday July 23, 2012 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: David Hill, Fox Networks Group, News Corp

David Hill will transition to a News Corp-wide role. This Peter Rice promotion ends Peter Rice Fox Networks Groupmonths of recent speculation that the Chairman of Entertainment for Fox Networks Group, who’s been on a very fast track inside Fox and News Corp, would move immediately into Peter Chernin‘s old role heading both film and television. Don’t forget that Rice began working at Fox as a summer intern in 1989. And that he and Rupert Murdoch have a very special relationship. I’ve been told that Rice’s father helped Rupert conquer the newspaper unions once upon a time, and, as a result, Murdoch looks upon Peter like a son. So the conventional wisdom is that Peter Rice is being groomed to be the next Peter Chernin or Chase Carey. And to do that No. 2 News Corp job, he’s got to know TV inside and out. It wasn’t that long ago that Rice was upped from Fox Searchlight to Fox Broadcasting’s Entertainment Chairman and then his duties expanded to oversee programming for the broadcast network as well as FX. Rice has earned the reputation within News Corp as a key creative type. As Murdoch once said about Rice, “Peter has the vision, creativity and determination.” Spoken like a proud surrogate father. Here’s the announcement: Read More »

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Fox Networks Group Continues Business And Legal Affairs Restructuring

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 5:06am PDTTags: Fox Networks Group

The company has some promotions this morning that it says complement its previously announced restructuring plans. Kelly Cline was promoted from SVP to EVP of entertainment business and legal affairs for the Fox Cable Networks, reporting to FNG’s … Read More »

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Fox Network Group Ups Karen Brodkin To Sports Unit’s EVP Biz & Legal Affairs

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 24, 2012 @ 12:53pm PSTTags: Fox Networks Group, Fox Sports Media Group

Fox Network Group has promoted longtime business and legal affairs executive Karen Brodkin to EVP Business and Legal Affairs at the Fox Sports Media Group. The move continues a restructuring that began in June to bring most of … Read More »

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Fox Networks Distribution Unveils Reorg

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 6:11am PDTTags: Fox Networks, Fox Networks Group

In a move designed to better align the division’s leadership, Fox Networks (FN) Distribution President Mike Hopkins today announced a restructuring of the group’s operations. Executive Vice President Michael Biard will be assuming additional responsibilities, with Senior Vice President of Advanced Services Julie Simon now reporting to him. Additionally, cable industry distribution veteran Steve Carcano is joining FN as Senior Vice President, National Accounts reporting to Mr. Biard, and Kris Nielsen-Refs will become FN’s new Vice President, Digital Distribution, reporting to Ms. Simon.

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David Lyle Named CEO For National Geographic Channels

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 12:55pm PDTTags: David Lyle, Fox Networks Group, National Geographic Channel
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Veteran Fox executive David Lyle, former president of the now defunct Fox Reality cable channel and international reality format licensing division Fox LOOK, has been named CEO for National Geographic Channels. The  co-venture of Fox Networks Group and the National Geographic Society includes National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, which … Read More »

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Fox Restricts Online Access To New Shows; For 8 Days Only Customers Of An Authorized Service Can See Them

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 3:18pm PDTTags: Dish Network, Fox, Fox Broadcasting, Fox Networks, Fox Networks Group, TV Shows Online

LOS ANGELES – Fox Networks and Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) today announced that beginning August 15, video distributors that participate in the company’s online authentication service will have an exclusive 8-day window for new episodes of FOX programs. To watch new episodes of FOX shows the next day, viewers can visit Fox.com, Hulu.com, Dishonline.com or the online TV portals of any future participating distributors and log in with their subscriber usernames and passwords. Viewers who do not subscribe to a participating distributor will be able to watch new episodes online eight days following their initial air dates.

DISH Network will be the first to offer this service, allowing their verified subscribers to take advantage of the exclusive window and view new episodes of FOX shows the day after they air on broadcast television.

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Fox Network Restructures Biz & Legal Team

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 12:52pm PDTTags: Fox Networks Group

Fox Networks Group EVP and General Counsel Rita Tuzon today announced a restructuring designed to bring most of the company’s business and legal affairs group under one umbrella. Claudia Teran, who previously served as SVP Business and Legal Affairs … Read More »

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Tony Vinciquerra To Leave Fox, David Haslingden To Head Fox Networks Group

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 10:44am PSTTags: Chase Carey News Corp, Fox Networks Group, Tony Vinciquerra, TV
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Big change on the TV side of News Corp. – Tony Vinciquerra, chairman and CEO of Fox Networks Group, is leaving the company after 10 years, he just announced to the staff (his email is below). In a separate memo, also posted below, News Corp. president and COO Chase Carey lays out Fox’s new hierarchy, with David Haslingden, CEO of Fox International Channels, now being named president and COO of the Fox Networks Group. But in the new reporting structure, the layer that Vinciquerra held is being eliminated, with his current reports Haslingden; David Hill, Chairman and CEO of Fox Sports Media Group; Peter Rice, Chairman Entertainment, FNG; and Mike Hopkins, President of Affiliate Sales and Marketing for Fox Cable, now all reporting to Carey.

In the past couple of years, Vinciquerra emerged as Fox’s top TV deal-maker, spearheading tough carriage negotiations with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and DISH that netted the company millions in retransmission consent fees and created a template for other broadcast networks. As chairman and CEO of Fox Networks Group, Vinciquerra oversaw Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox Cable Networks – FX, National Geographic Channel and NatGeo WILD, Fox Movie Channel, FUEL TV, 19 O&O regional sports networks, SPEED, Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Soccer Plus, Fox College Sports, FOX Deportes, and the Big Ten Network – as well as Fox International Channels, which reach 350 million subscribers worldwide. Under him, Fox’s cable networks became a key contributor to News Corp.’s bottom line and last quarter were responsible for 50% of the company’s profits.

Vinciquerra’s rise within Fox peaked in the spring of 2009 when, as part of the company-wide reorganization following the exit of Peter Chernin as News Corp. president and COO (Chernin was the person who had brought him to Fox), Vinciquerra was given oversight of the entire portfolio of Fox networks – broadcast and cable, domestic and international, reporting to Rupert Murdoch. Then in July of that year, Chase Carey was named president and COO of News Corp., and Vinciquerra began reporting to him. Several months later, Fox Entertainment chairman’s Peter Rice’s duties were expanded to oversee programming for the broadcast network as well as FX, something Vinicquerra had been doing. The move raised speculation about a possible exit by Vinciquerra. Last year, he was approached by Comcast’s Steve Burke about possibly joining the merged Comcast-NBCU TV operations.

Vinciquerra said he first considered leaving in July but decided to put off the move with two big retrans negotiations looming – one with Cablevision and one with DISH. With those resolved, he said he approached Carey with a request to be released early from his contract around Thanksgiving, and the two spent the past couple month ironing out the company’s succession plan. Vinciquerra will stay on until Feb. 11 to help with the transition. One of his last duties will be attending the Feb. 6 Super Bowl, which is carried by Fox this year, where he will introduce the new Fox Networks Group executive team to buyers and other key attendees.  As for the future, Vinciquerra said he had already been approached by several private equity firms and other companies. As for NBCU, that door closed long time ago as it involved a move to New York, said Vinciquerra, who plans to stay in Los Angeles with his family. He also intends to pursue his passion for broadband. (Vinciquerra is a member of the Board of Motorola). “I’ve been fascinated to watch what’s been going on in the communication business,” he said, adding that he has been studying how electricity changed the world. “I see a lot of parallels to broadband, and I feel it’s time to step back and study that on the public or private side. It’s going to have a revolutionary effect.”

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Int’l Reality Unit Fox LOOK Adds 2 Execs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 3:00am PDTTags: David Lyle, Fox Networks Group, Reality TV, Unscripted TV
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Fox LOOK, Fox Networks Group’s recently launched division dedicated to the international licensing and production of unscripted programming, has named Stephen Wong SVP business development and operations, and Glen Hansen VP sales. Wong comes from Sony Pictures TV, international productions; Hansen from Target Entertainment Group (UK). Both will report to … Read More »

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