Bonnie Hammer of USA and Syfy gains more power in the NBC/Comcast merger
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Remlik (aka remlik)
Nov 16 '10, 14:18
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Universal Studios President Ron Meyer, NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol, NBC News President Steve Capus and CNBC President Mark Hoffman will all retain their portfolios. Burke also sought to keep in the fold the two executives who run NBC's highly profitable cable television group, Bonnie Hammer and Lauren Zalaznick, giving them additional duties.
Hammer, who oversees USA Network and Syfy, will gain responsibility for Comcast's cable channels E! and G-4. Zalaznick, who heads Bravo and Oxygen, will add Comcast's Style cable channel and take over NBC Universal's Miami-based Spanish-language network Telemundo and bilingual cable channel mun2.
In recent years, NBC's cable channels � USA Network, Syfy, Bravo, MSNBC and CNBC � have generated more than $1 billion a year in profit, propping up the company financially even as the network and movie studio faltered. In his analysis, Harrigan estimated the asset value of USA at $11.7 billion, the Syfy channel at $6.3 billion and CNBC at $3.9 billion.
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