NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment
| Division | |
| Industry | Cable |
| Founded | August 2, 2004 |
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Key people
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Bonnie Hammer (Chairwoman) Jeff Wachtel (CCO) |
| Owner |
NBCUniversal (Comcast Corporation) |
| Divisions | Lifestyle Network Group Entertainment Networks |
| Subsidiaries | Universal Cable Productions |
| Division of NBCUniversal | |
| Industry | Cable, internet |
| Successor |
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| Founded | January 31, 2011 |
| Defunct | February 4, 2013 |
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Key people
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Lauren Zalaznick, chairwoman |
| Owner |
NBCUniversal (Comcast Corporation) |
| Division | |
| Industry | Cable |
| Predecessor | NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media |
| Founded | February 4, 2013 |
| Owner |
NBCUniversal (Comcast Corporation) |
| Divisions |
Telemundo NBC Universo |
| Division | |
| Industry | Cable |
| Predecessor | NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media |
| Founded | February 4, 2013 |
| Founder | Lauren Zalaznick |
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Number of locations
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2 |
| Owner |
NBCUniversal (Comcast Corporation) |
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Number of employees
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20 |
| Divisions | Seeso |
NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group, formerly NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment & Cable Studios, is the division of NBCUniversal that oversees all of the conglomerate's non-sports cable television channels.
In July 2008, Universal Cable Productions was split from Universal Media Studios (UMS) and placed into NBCUniversal's NBCU Cable Entertainment division. The unit was placed under the direction of a management team consisting of 5 executives.
In February 2013, following the acquisition of the company by Comcast, NBCUniversal merged its two cable divisions, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment & Cable Studios and NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, into one unit. By April 2013, Comcast Entertainment Studios, or E! Studios, was renamed Wilshire Studios. Jeff Wachtel was transferred from his position as co-president of USA to head of content at Universal Cable Productions.
With the resignation of E! President Suzanne Kolb in September 2014, NBCU Cable announced the formation of Lifestyle Network Group consisting of Bravo, Oxygen, E! Entertainment and Esquire Network. The Group was to be led by Frances Berwick, president of Bravo and Oxygen Media with Esquire Network president Adam Stotsky to take over as general manager of E!
On April 14, 2014, Comcast purchased Lions Gate Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment's stakes in Fearnet, acquiring full ownership of the channel. Comcast plans to fold Fearnet into its existing horror- and thriller-focused network Chiller (owned by the company's NBCUniversal Cable unit), although some of Fearnet's programming may be moved to Syfy.
Hammer ordered a reorganization that creates the Entertainment Networks group with Chiller, Cloo, Syfy, and USA Network by transferring two Syfy executives out and placing USA Network president Chris McCumber in charge of the group as president. Transferred Syfy executives include the executive vice president of original content, who moved to the post of executive vice president of scripted content under the chief content officer of NBCU Cable, and the president of Syfy and Chiller, who moved to president of strategy and commercial growth at NBCU Cable. Sprout was also added to Lifestyle Network. On September 9, 2017, Sprout will be renamed Universal Kids while the Sprout brand would be used for its pre-school programming block. The group agreed to purchase a majority stake in Craftsy digital network from equity firms in May 2017.
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