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Article: Comcast's Singer Will Join OWN.(Oprah Winfrey Network)
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- Multichannel News
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- November 2, 2009
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by Kent Gibbons
Several cable networks announced personnel moves last week, including the hiring of a Comcast content acquisition executive to oversee multiplatform distribution for the upcoming OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
OWN, the joint venture of Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey launching next fall (reformating Discovery Health), hired Allan Singer as executive vice president of distribution and strategy, reporting to OWN CEO Christina Norman.
He will lead the content distribution and sales strategy for OWN. He comes to OWN from Comcast, where he served as senior vice president of content acquisition under executive vice ...