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Speaker's Biography:
Peter Chernin
President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation; Chairman and CEO, Fox Group
Peter Chernin is President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of The Fox Group. He is also a member of the Board of News Corporation, the Office of the Chairman, and the board of The Fox Entertainment Group. Chernin oversees diversified global operations spanning five continents, including the production and distribution of film and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; the publication of newspapers, magazines and books and the development of digital broadcasting. Under Chernin, News Corporation’s cable network group has experienced explosive growth, going from zero to more than 400 million cable subscribers in the past six years. Prior to his current appointment, he headed Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment and earlier, the Fox Entertainment Group of the Fox Broadcasting Company. He oversaw Fox’s tremendous growth in sports, cable and general entertainment television programming and distribution in the U.S. and internationally. Chernin joined Fox from Lorimar Film Entertainment, where he was president and COO. Earlier, he was executive vice president, Programming and Marketing for Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc., vice president of development and production at the David Gerber Company, an editor for Warner Books and associate publicity director of St. Martin’s Press.
Panel:
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