DIRECTV Announces Executive Promotions in Programming and Entertainment Departments.Derek Chang Chang (chăng) or Yangtze (yăng`sē`, yäng`dzŭ`), Mandarin Chang Jiang, longest river of China and of Asia, c.3,880 mi (6,245 km) long, rising in the Tibetan highlands, SW Qinghai prov. Promoted To Executive Vice President, Content Strategy and Development; Dan Hartman Promoted to Senior Vice President, Programming Acquisition Eric Shanks
The shanks and tattlers are wading bird species in a number of genera characterised by a medium length bill and long, often brightly coloured legs. to Lead DIRECTV Entertainment Department EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif. -- DIRECTV today announced a series of promotions in its programming and entertainment departments. Derek Chang has been promoted to executive vice president of Content Strategy and Development and Dan Hartman has been promoted to senior vice president, Programming Acquisition. Mr. Chang will report to Chase Carey Chase Carey has served as a Director and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of DirecTV since December 22, 2003. Career History Chase Carey was a Harvard MBA and a college rugby player. , president and 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. of DIRECTV. Mr. Hartman will report to Mr. Chang. In his new role, Mr. Chang will oversee all programming strategy, development and acquisitions for the domestic DIRECTV business. Mr. Hartman will assume day-to-day responsibilities for interfacing with major programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists and negotiating DIRECTV's core programming rights. It was also announced today that Eric Shanks, executive vice president of Entertainment, will now lead all of DIRECTV's entertainment efforts and will also report directly to Mr. Carey. Together, Shanks and Chang will oversee the content, programming operations and content strategy for DIRECTV. These changes are being made as David Hill David Hill may refer to one of a number of people with this name:
"In his time with the company, Derek has brought tremendous expertise and insight critical to the development of our programming strategy and operations, and will be valuable as leader of our programming group," Carey said. "Eric Shanks has been the architect behind the development of original content and integrating interactive services with our sports and other programming. He will continue to apply his considerable skill and talent to drive new and unique programming initiatives and enhance our growing advertising sales effort. Together, they are a formidable team to bring compelling programming and exciting new content innovations to our customers. "Dan Hartman has proven himself, playing a point role with our content providers and his expertise will be a true asset as we tackle an even wider array of programming challenges," Carey added. "He will employ his substantial legal expertise and ability to work hand-in-hand with Derek to continue to drive programming efficiencies while securing unique and industry leading content for our customers." Chang joined DIRECTV in March of last year as senior vice president, Strategy and Development, and was responsible for developing strategic business opportunities for DIRECTV. Hartman, who joined DIRECTV in 1998, was responsible for program acquisition activities for all general entertainment and premium cable networks and was programming liaison for DIRECTV's Advanced Products group. In addition, Carey added, "I'd like to take the opportunity to thank David and Dan for their significant contributions over the past few years; they have played such an important role in our success. I'm particularly excited David will be available to us in the future and that we'll continue to benefit from his unique talent and vision. I congratulate Dan and wish him well in the future." About DIRECTV, Inc. DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading satellite television service provider, presents the finest television experience available to more than 16 million customers through exclusive content, industry-leading customer service (which has surpassed cable for six years running) and superior technologies. Each day, DIRECTV subscribers enjoy over 250 channels of 100% digital picture and sound, exclusive programming and the most comprehensive collection of sports programming available anywhere including NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga SUNDAY Sunday: see Sabbath; week. TICKET[TM], and MLB EXTRA INNINGS MLB Extra Innings is an Out-of-Market Sports Package distributed by most cable and satellite providers in North America. The package allows its subscribers to see up to 60 out-of-market Major League Baseball games a week using local and national television networks. [TM]. DIRECTV (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. ) also leads the digital television technology revolution with exclusives such as NFL SUNDAY TICKET SuperFan[TM], US Open Interactive and YES Network Interactive and will soon have the capacity to offer 150 national channels in HD. For the most up-to-date information on the Company, please visit directv.com. |
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