Skydance has reshuffled its TV and streaming distribution team, which is responsible for content deals with pay-TV operators, streaming and device platforms, and other partners. As part of the changes, eight execs who were with Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are departing.
\n\nThe latest changes at Skydance — formed by the megamerger of David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and WBD, which closed Oct. 6 — were announced in an internal memo by Ray Hopkins, president of distribution.
\n\nHopkins’ two top lieutenants heading the distribution team are Sarah Bergman, an HBO veteran who most recently was WBD’s EVP of networks and streaming distribution, and Mickey Carter, formerly EVP of distribution for Paramount. Bergman and Carter will share the title of EVP of distribution and they will split responsibility for negotiating distribution agreements and managing partnerships.
\n\nThe Skydance distribution team handles deals for CBS owned-and-operated stations, 55 basic cable networks, Paramount+, HBO Max, Discovery+, Pluto TV and over 100 FAST channels.
\n\nThe execs leaving Skydance are: Rivka Golomb (WBD head of distribution strategy and finance), Kelly Kane (WBD SVP partner marketing), Jeff Cross (WBD EVP, legal, distribution and commercial partnerships), Rich Palermo (WBD EVP network and streaming distribution), David Comisar (CBS, SVP, affiliate…
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