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Article: WB fast-forward: studio ousts exex in homevid overhaul.(Warner Bros. management established new group as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group )
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- October 26, 2005
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In a sweeping realignment, Warner Bros. Entertainment has ousted homevid topper Jim Cardwell and become the first studio to combine its home entertainment, Internet, wireless, games and other digital operations into one group.
The new Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will be headed by biz development and strategy exec Kevin Tsujihara. He will report directly to Warners chairman-CEO Barry Meyer and prexy-chief operating officer Alan Horn.
Longtime Warner rid exec Ron Sanders was named to replace 22-year vet Cardwell as president of Warner Home Video, which becomes a division of the larger home entertainment unit. Also out in the reorg is longtime ...