CBS Business Affairs EVPs Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim Expand Roles Into News, Sports and Media

CBS CEO George Cheeks announced on Tuesday that Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim, who currently co-guide Small business Affairs for CBS Entertainment and Studios, are expanding their obligations to oversee News and Stations, Sports activities, and CBS Media Ventures.

Cheeks laid out their new roles in a memo to staff, crafting. “As executive vice presidents and co-heads of Enterprise Affairs for CBS, they will offer management, strategy, steering and assistance to all our outstanding B.A. groups. Very similar to our centralized structure for Communications, Marketing and Finance, the divisional B.A. teams will report instantly to Allison and Jeeun, though continuing to operate closely with their respective divisional leaders. Allison and Jeeun have finished a amazing occupation leading B.A. at equally CBS Entertainment and CBS Studios about the earlier year and a half.”

Brightman will operate generally with the Studios and Media Ventures groups when Jeeun will focus on Entertainment, News and Stations, and Athletics.

“A strong Business Affairs procedure is a essential driver of our success in a promptly evolving media world, and I consider this unified structure is a win for all CBS groups. Each division can profit from the combined expertise and ability sets throughout all our business strategists and negotiators, regardless of the form of content material, expertise and platforms they include. Please join me in congratulating Jeeun and Allison on their freshly expanded roles and thanking them for their considerable contributions to CBS!” he wrote.

Brightman was named govt vice president of CBS Tv Studios in January 2020 and later on co-head of Enterprise Affairs for Studios and Entertainment with Kim in Oct 2020. She very first joined CBS in 2006 as vice president of Organization Affairs and was promoted to senior vice president in 2012, incorporating CBS All Accessibility to her portfolio in 2017. Prior to joining CBS, she was senior legal counsel at HBO considering that 1998.

Kim, who started her vocation as a lawyer at  Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in New York, was director of Business Affairs (Original Series) for Netflix till October 2020, where by she led a staff of negotiators handling growth, creation and license deals for scripted development jobs and series. Prior to that, she held quite a few senior roles at different divisions at NBCUniversal, like NBC Community, United states of america, Syfy, Universal Cable Productions and Universal Tv.