Mary Ann Turcke


Bell restructures TV as Vivolo exits

Canadian telco Bell has restructured the exec team at TV operations in the wake of Domenic Vivolo leaving the business. Vivolo (left) leaves at the end of the week to ‘pursue other opportunities’. As president, content sales, marketing and digital products, he has overseen programme sales and marketing across Bell’s bouquet of cable nets, its […]

Netflix, Bell board new Star Trek

Netflix has taken exclusive SVOD rights to the upcoming CBS All Access Star Trek drama series in 188 territories, while Bell Media has landed it in Canada. Additionally, Netflix has officially confirmed a deal with CBS Studios International to take all 727 existing Star Trek back catalogue episodes from series including Star Trek: The Original […]

Discovery Channel Canada boss out in rejig

Discovery Channel Canada’s long-serving president and general manager Paul Lewis is leaving as part of continuing top level changes at local giant Bell Media. Lewis has been with Discovery Channel since 1994, but is one of senior managers leaving as new Bell president Mary Ann Turcke continues to build a new executive team. The departure […]

Bell confirms new entertainment chief

Canada’s Bell Media has confirmed the appointment of Randy Lennox a day after news broke CTV programming chief Phil King had left the broadcaster. Lennox, who most recently was CEO and president of Universal Music Canada, has been named president, entertainment production and broadcasting. He will report directly to Bell president Mary Ann Turcke and […]

Programming chief exits CTV in rejig

Phil King has left his post as programming boss at Canadian network CTV as part of a management reshuffle. King (pictured) has been president of CTV and sports programming for parent company Bell Media since 2010 and is also its entertainment chief, but exits as part of a restructure implemented by new Bell president Mary […]