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CSTV Networks, Inc. Taps Industry Veteran John Duff as Executive Vice President, Distribution.


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, has named cable industry veteran John Duff as executive vice president, distribution. In his new role, Duff is charged with overseeing two important customer channels: cable affiliates and university affiliates.

"John will be a great asset to our efforts, integrating affiliate sales, affiliate marketing and university relations, and focusing our energies on both sales and service," said Brian Bedol, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and founder of CSTV. "His wealth of experience in both cable and broadband is a perfect fit for CSTV, as we continue to allow fans to realize their college sports passions in new and innovative ways."

Duff joins CSTV from AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , where as executive director he oversaw the company's broadband distribution into the cable MSO (1) (Multiple System Operator) Typically refers to a cable TV organization that owns more than one cable system, but it may refer to an operator of only one system.  and telecommunications channels. Previously, Duff served as senior vice president of affiliate sales, marketing and local ad sales for Bravo, Independent Film Channel and MagRack, handling these duties for the 27-state Western Division from Bravo Networks' Los Angeles office.

He also spent seven years in affiliate sales & marketing at MTV Networks, domestic and international, rising to vice president at MTV MTV
 in full Music Television

U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business.
 before joining DIRECTV International to head up programming acquisition and development.

A native of Southern California, Duff earned an undergraduate degree from UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
. He is married to Olga Calderon; they have three girls, ages 5, 3, and 10 months.

CSTV Networks is a multi-media company that exists for the love of the game.

Through its numerous platforms, CSTV allows more college sports fans access to their passion than any other source -- through live college sporting events, news, information, analysis and broadband content. CSTV Networks consists of: College Sports TV, which televises regular-season and championship events for 35 men's and women's college sports, and from every major collegiate athletic conference. CSTV features more women's sports coverage than any other network, and reaches millions of fans across the country through the top six cable companies. CSTV.com, the number-one online source for college sports broadband content, news, information, scores and analysis. CSTV.com serves as the backbone for more than 200 official sites for top universities and athletic conferences. GameTracker Live provides live statistics and scores for more than 13,000 college sports events a year, and College Sports Pass subscription service provides live audio and video of more than 6,000 events annually.
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