CBS Restructures Business Affairs With Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim

CBS is restructuring its enterprise affairs operations to develop the duties of Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim, who at the moment function the chief vice chairman co-heads of the unit for CBS Leisure and CBS Studios, to incorporate CBS Sports activities, CBS Information & Stations and CBS Media ventures, Selection has realized.

This can put Brightman and Kim in control of enterprise affairs throughout all CBS manufacturers, making a extra centralized management construction for the corporate whereas all of its divisional groups stay in place.

The duo’s new shared title is government vice chairman and co-heads of enterprise affairs at CBS. with each reporting on to president and CEO George Cheeks. Although they’re each operating the division collectively, Brighton will proceed to give attention to CBS Studios and add in CBS Media Ventures, whereas Kim will hold her oversight of CBS Leisure and add CBS Sports activities and CBS Information & Stations.

The enterprise affairs leads in all CBS divisions will report back to Brightman and Kim whereas persevering with to work carefully with their respective divisional presidents.

See Cheeks’ Tuesday e mail to employees asserting the enterprise affairs modifications beneath.

Group – I’m excited to announce right now a brand new unified Enterprise Affairs construction for CBS. As a part of this, Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim, who at the moment co-lead Enterprise Affairs for CBS Leisure and Studios, will develop their purview to incorporate Information and Stations, Sports activities, and CBS Media Ventures, too.

As government vice presidents and co-heads of Enterprise Affairs for CBS, they’ll present management, technique, steering and assist to all our excellent B.A. groups. Similar to our centralized construction for Communications, Advertising and Finance, the divisional B.A. groups will report on to Allison and Jeeun, whereas persevering with to work carefully with their respective divisional leaders.

Allison and Jeeun have achieved a incredible job main B.A. at each CBS Leisure and CBS Studios over the previous 12 months and a half. They’ve seamlessly supported each groups in negotiating an extremely wide selection of agreements with expertise, creators, studios and platforms for sequence, specials and different programming and our “general offers” with writers, producers and administrators.

Of their new function, Allison and Jeeun will make use of the identical strategy they used for the Community and Studios: operating the B.A. operation along with every of them having particular areas of emphasis. Allison will work primarily with the Studios and Media Ventures groups whereas Jeeun will give attention to Leisure, Information and Stations, and Sports activities.

A robust Enterprise Affairs operation is a crucial driver of our success in a quickly evolving media world, and I consider this unified construction is a win for all CBS groups. Every division can profit from the mixed experience and ability units throughout all our enterprise strategists and negotiators, no matter the kind of content material, expertise and platforms they cowl.

Please be a part of me in congratulating Jeeun and Allison on their newly expanded roles and thanking them for his or her important contributions to CBS!

George