NBCUniversal announced today that Kerry Brockhage has been promoted to Executive Vice President & Chief Counsel for NBCUniversal Content Distribution. She will continue to serve as the primary legal counsel for the distribution of NBCUniversal's entire portfolio of networks across multiple platforms, and report to Matt Bond, Chairman, Content Distribution, and Kimberley Harris, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for NBCUniversal.
Brockhage spearheads the legal strategy for the distribution of NBCUniversal's cable networks,
NBC and
Telemundo owned stations, regional sports networks, as well as the Olympics with all cable, satellite, telco partners, digital MVPDs, and emerging OTT/OVD platforms. Additionally, Brockhage oversees the legal activity for the distribution of content on multiple devices, and negotiates and structures agreements involving NBCUniversal's TV Everywhere (TVE) and on demand offering.
"Kerry is an extraordinary leader who has played a critical role in securing comprehensive carriage agreements with our affiliates, including a number of significant deals in the past year, and I'm thrilled to announce this well-deserved promotion," said Matt Bond, Chairman, Content Distribution. "With the rapidly evolving media landscape, Kerry's wealth of experience and strategic insight have proven to be invaluable in driving NBCUniversal's distribution business forward and paving the way for continued success."
Prior to joining NBCUniversal in 2011, Brockhage served as Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs for A&E Networks and Lifetime Entertainment Services.
Brockhage graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a law degree at UC Hastings College of the Law.
About NBCUniversal Content Distribution Content Distribution is a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Content Distribution drives the North American distribution of NBCUniversal's multi-billion dollar television portfolio to all multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), digital MVPDs, and other mobile and emerging platforms. A key revenue-generator, the division oversees the distribution of the Olympics and retransmission consent for
NBC and
Telemundo owned stations and leads the content strategy and development for offerings that include video-on-demand (VOD) and TV Everywhere (TVE).
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