DIRECTV’s Content Department Appoints Robert Thun Senior Vice President of Content and Programming
October 14 2013 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Emma Brackett Named Vice President of
Content and Programming
DIRECTV, one of the world’s leading providers of digital
television entertainment, announced today Robert Thun has joined
DIRECTV as senior vice president of Content and Programming.
Reporting to Thun will be Emma Brackett, vice president of Content
and Programming.
Robert Thun, Senior Vice President of
Content and Programming, DIRECTV (Photo: Business Wire)
"With programming costs continuing to rise at unjustifiable
rates it is critical that we continue to strengthen our Content
team with experienced and skilled executives like Rob and Emma to
secure the best content, rights and value for our customers in
every deal we do," said Daniel York, executive vice president
and chief content officer for DIRECTV. "Their diverse experience
and knowledge of both the content and distribution sides of the
business makes them invaluable additions to our Content
organization."
Thun, who reports to York, will be responsible for managing key
content categories and relationships with many of the industry's
largest network groups, as well as overseeing DIRECTV’s
retransmission consent, sports, Spanish-language, international,
and home shopping programming, in an effort to negotiate the best
possible deals to secure content for DIRECTV customers across all
platforms.
Thun comes to the content operations team from Univision where
he served as executive vice president of Business Operations.
There, he was responsible for leading the company's deal team in
developing and executing the distribution strategies for
Univision's broadcast and cable television network portfolio. In
addition, Thun managed the field sales, business affairs and
financial services teams within UCI’s Distribution Sales &
Marketing department.
Prior to joining Univision Thun spent seven years at AT&T.
While there he was a key contributor to the launch of AT&T of
U-Verse, successfully negotiating deals with many of the industry’s
top content providers. Prior to AT&T, Thun worked at Fox Cable
Networks for over seven years serving as vice president of National
Accounts, Sales Strategy and Business Development.
As vice president of Content and Programming, Brackett focuses
on Spanish-language, international and the home shopping areas of
the business. She will work with Thun and his team to enable our
partners to identify, acquire, produce, program and manage the cost
of content so DIRECTV can deliver the world’s best video experience
to its customers.
"DIRECTV's programming team has a very strong reputation for
working hard for its customers to provide them with the best
content at the fairest rates," said Thun. "I look forward to the
challenges this new opportunity brings and excited to be a part of
the talented DIRECTV Content and Programming team."
"DIRECTV has an excellent lineup of International and Hispanic
programming that offers some of the best content from around the
world," said Brackett. "This is a tremendous opportunity to bring
even more high-quality content to our customers who rely on DIRECTV
to stay connected to their homeland."
Brackett joins DIRECTV from Globecast Americas where she served
as vice president of Consumer Video. In that role Brackett
successfully launched the MyGlobeTV OTT (over-the-top content)
platform with dozens of international channels. Brackett also spent
six years at AT&T U-Verse, most recently as director of
Content, developing AT&T’s International and Hispanic content
strategy and acquisitions.
Thun holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from
the University of Georgia, a master’s degree of accounting from the
University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of
California Los Angeles. Brackett received her bachelor’s degree
from Antioch College and earned her law degree from Southwestern
Law School in Los Angeles, California.
About DIRECTV:
DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV) is one of the world’s leading providers of
digital television entertainment services delivering a premium
video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched
programming and industry leading customer service to more
than 36 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.
In the U.S., DIRECTV offers its over 20 million customers access to
more than 190 HD channels and Dolby-Digital® 5.1 theater-quality
sound, access to exclusive sports programming such as NFL SUNDAY
TICKET™, Emmy-award winning technology and higher customer
satisfaction than the leading cable companies for 13 years running.
DIRECTV Latin America, through its subsidiaries and affiliated
companies in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia,
another Latin American countries, leads the pay TV category in
technology, programming and service, delivering an unrivaled
digital television experience to more than 16 million customers.
DIRECTV sports and entertainment properties include two Regional
Sports Networks (Rocky Mountain and Pittsburgh), and minority
ownership interests in Root Sports Northwest and Game Show Network.
For the most up-to-date information on DIRECTV, please
visit www.directv.com.
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