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DRWarner Bros.' Zaslav Offers $68 Million to Buy Summer Campnew January 2026 employment agreement$96M: Make-Whole RSU award to CEO Daivd Zaslav of 1,963,465 shares; after January 2 Follow-On Option award of 3,052,734 options because share price is downUnder a new employment agreement executed on June 12, 2025, Zaslav received a special award of 20,898,776 stock options with an exercise price of $10.16 (~$400M). Additionally, on January 2, 2026, he was granted 3,052,734 follow-on stock options with an exercise price of $28.51 (~$40M). To address the higher exercise price of these options compared to the initial grant, Zaslav received 1,963,465 restricted stock units on January 5, 2026 (~$56M).The Compensation Committee: 23 meetings in 2025*Paul A. Gould, 80, 18 years tenureGould and Zaslav worked closely together at Discovery, Inc. for nearly 15 years.David Zaslav took the helm as President and CEO of Discovery, Inc. in January 2007.Paul Gould joined the Discovery, Inc. Board of Directors shortly after, serving as an independent director from 2007 until the company merged with WarnerMedia.Both men belong to the tight-knit professional circle surrounding cable pioneer and billionaire John Malone.Paul Gould has a long history as a trusted director across Malone's web of companies, serving for years on the boards of Liberty Global and Liberty Latin America.David Zaslav has publicly and frequently cited John Malone as his primary professional mentor.Their shared ties to Malone are so closely linked that in 2012, Zaslav partnered with other high-level executives to donate $1 million to the Cable Center specifically to build and name the John Malone Theater.Paul Gould has served as a Managing Director and Executive Vice President at Allen & Company, a premium boutique investment bank deeply embedded in the media and entertainment ecosystem. Through this avenue, Gould and Zaslav connect in two ways:Financial Advisory: Allen & Company has a long history of providing valuation opinions, advisory services, and market analysis for major transactions initiated by Zaslav during his career.The Sun Valley Conference: Allen & Company famously hosts the annual "Summer Camp for Billionaires" in Sun Valley, Idaho. As a prominent media mogul, Zaslav is a regular, high-profile attendee at this event, which is organized by Gould's firm.Kenneth W. LoweKen Lowe is the former Chair/CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive (the former parent company of massive lifestyle brands like HGTV, Food Network, and ID).The Link: In 2018—four years before the Warner Bros. deal even closed—Zaslav orchestrated Discovery's $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks. As a direct result of that blockbuster cable industry consolidation, Lowe joined Discovery Inc.'s board of directors. He and Zaslav had already been working together closely at the board level for years before the legacy company expanded into WBD.The board of AT&TRichard W. FisherOutside of WBD, Zaslav's connection to Fisher is rooted in Fisher's previous role as a member of the Board of Directors for AT&T. When Zaslav was hammering out the complex transaction to spin WarnerMedia away from AT&T, Fisher was one of the crucial board leaders on the other side of the table who evaluated and signed off on the deal. As part of the closing agreement, Fisher was designated by AT&T to transition directly over to the new WBD board.Debra L. LeeDebra Lee was the longtime Chair/CEO of BET Networks (Black Entertainment Television) from 2006 to 2018.Zaslav and Lee have long-standing commitments to The Paley Center for Media, sharing space as members of its highly prestigious Board of Trustees. Additionally, Lee served on the board of AT&T, meaning she was part of the corporate governance team that initially approved Zaslav's pitch to merge Discovery with WarnerMedia.Geoffrey Y. YangJust like Richard Fisher and Debra Lee, Yang's primary pre-WBD connection to Zaslav comes down to AT&T. Yang sat on AT&T's board during the high-stakes dealmaking window. Because of his background in digital media and venture capital, he was designated by AT&T leadership to transition to the WBD board to help Zaslav steer the newly formed company's streaming and direct-to-consumer technology strategies.The board that ignores Say on Pay votesAt our 2025 Annual Meeting held on June 2, 2025, we held an advisory vote on executive compensation, or "Say on Pay" vote, and a majority of the votes cast by stockholders were cast against our executive compensation program.Our executive compensation program is designed to pay for performance and effectively balance executive and stockholder interests. The Committee considered the outcome of the "Say on Pay" vote from the 2025 Annual Meeting, and while it continues to believe that our executive compensation structure, which includes long-term agreements with each of our NEOs and delivers a significant majority of NEO compensation in performance-based vehicles, is effective in meeting our compensation objectives, it took note of the negative 2025 "Say on Pay" vote when making compensation decisions after the 2025 Annual Meeting.The Dodd-Frank Act: "The shareholder vote … shall not be binding on the issuer or the board of directors of an issuer, and may not be construed as overruling a decision by such issuer or board of directors”Special meeting vote 4/23/26: Say on Pay 83% no6/9 AGM: ShareholdersPaul A. Gould 52% noRichard W. Fisher 31% noDebra L. Lee 32% noKenneth W. Lowe 31% noGeoffrey Y. Yang 31% noZaslav 3% noSay on Pay 84% noStill on boardPaul A. GouldRichard W. FisherDebra L. LeeKenneth W. LoweGeoffrey Y. YangZaslavThe SEC: "The Say-on-Pay … votes are advisory rather than binding ... Unlike a binding vote, advisory votes do not require the company or its board of directors to take a specific action. The company's board of directors may consider advisory votes and may follow up with other communications or dialogue with shareholders as part of its deliberative process in making policy decisions."The workers for being poor1,378 to 1 CEO pay ratio.Andrew M. Cuomo Joins the OKX Board of DirectorsThe worldMen GreedThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) In February 2025, OKX pled guilty in a U.S. federal court to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and violating anti-money laundering (AML) laws.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that despite OKX having an "official policy" banning U.S. users, the exchange actively pursued U.S. customers and generated hundreds of millions in fees from them.Internal logs showed OKX employees explicitly telling U.S. clients how to bypass the exchange's own blocks—even telling a customer to "just put a random country" during identity verification.The exchange was used to facilitate over $5 billion in suspicious transactions and criminal proceeds, resulting in a staggering $504 million penalty.TrumpTrump has normalized crypto. Is it the path to the next financial collapse?Jon Ossoff Rips RFK Jr.'s ‘Foolish' Cutback To Cyclosporiasis Monitoring: Sen. Jon Ossoff says a cyclosporiasis outbreak spreading nationwide could be harder to track because the Trump administration changed CDC surveillance last year. In a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ossoff argues that the CDC's FoodNet program (a public health network that monitors infections from multiple pathogens across CDC, USDA, FDA, and 10 states) stopped requiring monitoring cyclospora, and that the administration later made data collection optional at FoodNet sites for most pathogens (except Salmonella and E. coli).Elon Musk"ESG is the devil"A "scam" weaponized by "phony social justice warriors"Vivek RamaswamyThe author of Woke, Inc.founded an entire asset management firm (Strive) designed explicitly to offer "anti-woke" investment options that ignore ESG metrics in favor of pure profit.Ron DeSantisSpearheaded a massive legislative pushback against ESG in Florida, signing bills that banned state and local governments from using ESG factors when investing public funds or issuing bondsArgues ESG is a way to bypass voters and enforce a political agenda through corporate power.Peter ThielCalled ESG a "hate factory" used to control capital and punish companies that don't fall in line with mainstream corporate ideologyTariq Fancy (Former Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock)“Whistleblower”Called ESG a "dangerous placebo" that does nothing to actually fix the planet but allows Wall Street to charge higher fees while greenwashing their portfoliosMike PenceArgues that major Wall Street firms use ESG to enforce a radical left-wing agenda on everyday Americans, forcing companies to adopt policies that hurt the domestic energy sector.Glenn Hegar (Texas Comptroller)Created a blacklist of financial companies (including BlackRock) banned from doing business with the state of TexasCalled ESG an "opaque and perverse system" that violates fiduciary dutyAndy Puzder (Former CEO of CKE Restaurants/Hardee's and Carl's Jr.)Argued that forcing companies to focus on social goals instead of profits violates shareholder capitalism and ultimately hurts the economySenator Tom CottonAttacked ESG from a legal and regulatory standpoint. He led a group of Republican senators in warning top U.S. law firms that advising companies to cooperate on ESG goals could open them up to massive federal antitrust violationsSanjai Bhagat (Finance Professor, University of Colorado)Argues that ESG funds don't actually deliver higher returns and that companies in ESG portfolios often have worse compliance records for labor and environmental rules than standard companiesMenI pay my employees $1,000 a month per child for day care. It's one of my ice cream company's best investments.A womanAll womenDEIMolly Moon Neitzelfounder and CEO of Molly Moon's Homemade Ice CreamHer business planwhich included living wages and free health insurance for everyone who worked at least 18 hours a weekMMC-suite promotions now come with three or more jobs - from the article: “When Target named Michael Fiddelke CEO in February 2026, the leadership changes he announced went beyond a standard promotion. Target eliminated its chief commercial officer role and consolidated merchandising authority into a single position, naming Cara Sylvester, previously chief guest experience officer, as the sole chief merchandising officer overseeing product development, assortment design, and partner collaborations.” - WHO DO YOU BLAME??AIIsn't “taking more jobs on” what the promise of AI has been? The article claims “Executives who excel in a specific function are increasingly entrusted with broader operating mandates spanning commercial, technology, operations, finance, or customer strategy” - but really, aren't we just admitting that marketing and sales can be done by a dopey robot?Executive ChairsAs the TOP boys realize they can offload their work by becoming Executive Chair (same salary, fewer hours, no responsibilities!), maybe the CEO class is realizing THEY can stop doing as much if they just give more jobs to underlings? It seems telling the prime example in the article is Target where Brian Cornell still lingers on the board like a boilPay committeesPay committees are handing out massive golden hellos, particularly to CFOs but all c-suite, and they can justify them by “rolling” pointless jobs into a single person, right? BoardsBoards aren't actually paying attention to executives anyway - the data suggests by and large boards in the US are either deferential to the executives (do whatever you want!) or entirely self dealing (highly connected horse trading jobs on other boards!). The result is an indifferent board to actual executive shakeups either way - and CEOs are using indifference to shake up the c-suitesGeneral Mills is recalling nearly 736,000 Pillsbury bread rolls over possible glass - WHO DO YOU BLAME??Public Responsibility Chair Jorge UribeEx “productivity” officer at P&G until he retired in 2015. MBA and bachelor's in “management engineering”, which confused our knowledge typing which pinged off “engineering” to give him Public Safety knowledge, but there's no ACTUAL EVIDENCE he did anything but sales/marketing10 year tenure - longer than the CEO, but not as long as…Longest tenured director and man on Public Responsibility committee Steve OdlandOdland is the CEO of the Conference Board, who does public policy and governance stuff - he was CEO of Office Depot and AutoZone, and came from food (Quaker Oats, Sara Lee)Been on the board 22 years!! Solid job if you can get itBut both Steve and Jorge are tagged as “deferential” in the data (this is an important gig for them), so maybe…CEO Jeff HarmeningWith General Mills since 1994, came from marketing, but was COO - maybe Jeff's job as a director at Toro Company made him too busy to notice the glass? Or, maybe it wasn't their fault at all…RFK Jr: It's not just Taco Bell lettuce and possible glass in Pillsbury rolls: Food and drink recall events reached a 6-year year-over-year high
“Personal mastery is all about humility and supporting other people and having purpose other than yourself.” R.O.G. Takeaway Tips: Sit quietly. Light up your right brain.Meditation Mindfulness practices Nature Walks without headphones or phone Music Art Laughter Gratitude Get emotionally fit. Engage in a recovery practice. Ask for help. Develop both personal and professional mastery. Guest Bio: Susan Packard, who has helped to build powerful media brands like HBO, CNBC, and HGTV. She was the second employee at HGTV, its co-founder, and its former chief operating officer. HGTV became Scripps Networks Interactive when they created new brands and platforms. She helped build these businesses to a market value of over $15 billion. Susan left the corporate media world to become a writer, mentor, and a leadership speaker. She has an established platform as an author today. TarcherPerigee (Penguin Random House) published her first book NEW RULES OF THE GAME: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace in 2015 and her second book FULLY HUMAN: Three Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership and Life in 2019. Both of these books explore how practices of good emotional health can help us to create better lives and careers. In NEW RULES she touched on grit, resilience and team trust. In FULLY HUMAN, she wrote about emotional fitness, a practice she teaches today to leaders, which was at the core of their success at HGTV. Susan gave a Tedx talk about emotional fitness at UCLA. In 2020, she was named one of the top 40 women keynote speakers by RealLeaders, and continues to be an active speaker at organizations and universities like Stanford Business School, Carnegie Mellon and University of Alabama. Susan was the first woman elected to serve on the board of directors of Churchill Downs, Inc., the owner and manager of the Kentucky Derby. Susan has done many things in her career others might consider “brave,” but the most courageous thing she's ever done was to ask for help for an on-going substance use disorder. In 2019, she gave a Commencement address at Michigan State University, her alma mater, and shared with the 5,000 graduates and their families some of her addiction and recovery journey. There she was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor in Humanities. Resources: Susan Packard Susan Packard's Books Test Your Emotional Fitness Whose am I? | Susan Packard | TEDxUCLA SoberForce Where to find R.O.G. Podcast: R.O.G on YouTube R.O.G on Apple Podcasts R.O.G on Spotify How diverse is your network? N.D.I. Network Diversity Index What is your Generosity Style? Generosity Quiz Credits: Susan Packard, Sheep Jam Productions, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc. Coming Next: Please join us next week, Episode 198, Special Guest, Lisa Bodell.
If you can hear the opening music for “Car Talk”, “Morning Edition” or “All Things Considered,” you gotta know that being the Chief Marketing Officer for NPR like Michael Smith, my guest on the Friday Fireside this week, is the coolest job in the world! And after 20 years at Scripps Networks Interactive (acquired by Discovery Inc), Michael has a LOT to say about where Warner Bros. Discovery is going, along with Paramount Plus, HBOMax and Peacock.
My guest on the show today is Adam Symson, the CEO of E.W. Scripps. Scripps is a 1.45 billion dollar market cap company that owns and operates local and national television stations. The company was founded in 1878 and over the years has operated within a number of different media businesses. The company spun off its cable TV business, Scripps Networks Interactive, in 2008 and then exited the newspaper business in 2015. These transactions served to focus the company more on its local TV business. However, since becoming CEO in 2017, Adam has led an aggressive acquisition campaign that has created a large and differentiated National Media segment whose stations mainly operate over-the-air. The Scripps management team anticipated that cable TV subscribers would continue to cut the cord and through these acquisitions has positioned the company to benefit as more people choose to watch TV via an antenna. Given all of the M&A activity and the dynamic nature of the pay-TV environment, I was excited to talk to Adam about: - How competition from digital ad platforms like Facebook are impacting local TV advertising; - The value of having a background in investigative journalism; - The rationale for the pace of acquisitions that have occurred during his tenure; - What it is like to work for a 100+ year old, family-controlled company; and - How Scripps develops win-win relationships with its various stakeholders This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Tegus, an innovative and disruptive company that is changing the way professional investors work. For more information, please visit: https://www.tegus.co/ Time stamps: - 1:18 Introduction - 2:54 The rise of social media advertising and its effects on paid TV media - 5:20 The state of the local broadcast TV industry in 2021 - 7:10 Building a resilient culture in a volatile industry - 9:39 The company ethos that comes from developing a $15 billion asset - 11:29 Suffering short-term pain for a long-term gain in the podcast space - 15:29 Capital allocation strategy in the media industry - 18:55 How Scripps employs value investing as a media company - 22:28 The logic behind acquiring the Katz network - 26:13 Taking a big M&A swing during a global pandemic - 33:15 Investing with Berkshire Hathaway as a partner - 35:45 Creating win-win partnerships with various industry constituents - 38:48 Navigating the unbundling movement as a media company - 44:13 Balancing OTA and cable viewing within the same company - 47:34 Investor concerns regarding the traditional media industry - 49:49 The sports rights battlefield and the future of sports on broadcast TV - 53:54 Why regulation in media needs to evolve - 57:38 From investigative journalist to public company CEO - 60:09 Assessing employee fit in a competitive job market - 61:22 How Scripps wins over the next 5 years - 62:51 Mistakes made over the first 4 years as CEO - 64:34 ATSC 3.0 and the technological evolution of broadcast TV - 66:38 Preparing for the future of broadcast TV - 67:11 The most misunderstood aspects of Scripps To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we'll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.
Michael Smith is the CMO of NPR, the independent, non-profit media organization that was founded with the purpose to create a more informed public—crucial to every democracy. Previous to this role, Michael was with several entertainment brands including CBS, Disney ABC Television, The Food Network, the Cooking Channel, and Scripps Networks Interactive.In this episode, Michael shares his insights on how to market a national media brand and why NPR is different from any of his previous organizations. Michael discusses how NPR is not only diversifying their talent, but also how his team is bringing their legacy audience along for the ride. Support our sponsor Deloitte and experience their guidance on resilience for brands in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more at Deloitte.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Getting a foot in the door to the entertainment field can be an incredible feat! This week's guests both have forged a formidable path in and are bringing unique strengths with them. Maya Day, Esquire is an Associate Attorney at Bruns, Brennan & Berry PC where she serves as production counsel, drafting talent and above-the-line personnel agreements for production companies such as BRON Studios, Jax Media, and A24. Maya has served as counsel for various television series and films, most recently “A Black Lady Sketch Show”, "Pieces of a Woman", “Emily in Paris" and “Desus & Mero.” Maya holds a B.A from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law. During her time at Howard Law School, she served as a Student Attorney in the Intellectual Property Clinic with a concentration in trademark law and served as the program coordinator for the Howard Law Sports and Entertainment Law Student Association. She also previously interned at BET Networks, the Federal Communications Commission, and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Maya is an active member of the Black Entertainment & Sports Lawyers Association (BESLA), Young Lawyers Division and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. Taylor Washington handles a broad range of entertainment transactions for clients in the film and television including production companies, actors/actresses, producers, directors, authors and influencers. Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Taylor was a Law Clerk for the NBCU News Group at NBCUniversal Media, LLC., where she served as legal counsel for CNBC prime time programming including “Deal or No Deal”, “The Profit”, and “Jay Leno's Garage.” She also advised and counseled business teams on other commercial transactions including venue and content licensing agreements. Additionally, Taylor performed pre-broadcast review of long-form programming on CNBC, including “Secret Lives of the Super Rich”, and advised on potential legal issues pertaining to privacy, defamation, libel, and intellectual property. During law school, Taylor interned in the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission and in the Business and Legal Affairs department at Scripps Networks Interactive (now Discovery, Inc.), where she worked with counsel to structure and draft production and talent agreements. Prior to law school, Taylor had extensive experience in the entertainment industry including jobs and internships with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the Recording Academy, Octagon, and Viacom. Taylor is a former member of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society Junior Board, and a current member of the New York State Bar Association, and Metropolitan Black Bar Association. She is admitted to practice in New York.
The Interview Discusses: How he helped launch CNBC, What it was like working in the cable industry when it finally started to gain popularity, David's views on the current media landscape and where he believes there could be consolidation, His thoughts on how content will be bundled in the future, David's thoughts on the current multiples for content companies and why Netflix and Disney have been able to garner premium multiples, What it was like working with Jack Welch, John Malone, and the Dolan family, And much more…Biography:As President and CEO, David Zaslav sets the strategy and oversees all operations for Discovery's global suite of brands across pay-TV, free-to-air, direct-to-consumer and other digital platforms. Under his leadership, Discovery began trading as a public company in 2008 and became a Fortune 500 company in 2014. More recently under Zaslav, Discovery acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, in a transaction which closed in 2018. The new Discovery comprises nearly 20% of ad-supported pay-TV viewership in the U.S. and nearly 7 billion monthly video views, making it #1 pay-TV portfolio in the U.S. Since Zaslav took the helm, Discovery has launched some of the fastest-growing cable networks in the U.S., including Investigation Discovery, a leading network for women in total day delivery; and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, a top network for African American women. Under his leadership, Discovery networks have hit numerous milestones, with TLC breaking all cable viewing trends and recording its most-watched year ever in primetime for 2020. Brands including HGTV, Food Network, TLC and ID regularly rank among the most-popular networks for their core demo of female viewers. The company's global distribution platform has, under Zaslav's leadership, expanded to 3 billion cumulative worldwide viewers with a diverse set of brands, creating an unmatched international portfolio for viewers, advertisers and distributors. Zaslav has diversified Discovery's content offering with investments such as Discovery Kids in Latin America, the leading preschool network across the region. Discovery has further strengthened its presence in key international markets through numerous transactions including the acquisition of Eurosport, which led to the groundbreaking agreement with the International Olympic Committee making Discovery and Eurosport the home of the Olympic Games across Europe through 2024.
Susan Packard, Writer, Speaker & co-Founder of HGTV, shared the story behind her title with us on Sunday, August 23, 2020.Susan has been on the ground floor and helped to build powerhouse media brands like HBO, CNBC, and HGTV. She was the co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. Under Packard's helm, HGTV became one of the fastest-growing cable networks in television history. Today HGTV is available in more than 98 million U.S. homes and distributed in over 200 countries and territories. Packard helped to build Scripps Networks Interactive to a market value of over $15 billion. In December of 2019 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from Michigan State University.SUE SAYSSusan spent years in the fast-paced world of media as the co-Founder of HGTV. As her inner voice began to speak to her a little louder, she realized her need for some self-reflection, and desire to find out who she truly was, and what she wanted. It led directly to her one-on-one, heartfelt work with men and women who themselves are in need of some inner work. My take away? Don't settle for a life that is not serving you.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/women-to-watch-r/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Susan Packard, Writer, Speaker & co-Founder of HGTV, shared the story behind her title for our Coaches Corner Podcast on Saturday, August 22, 2020. Susan has been on the ground floor and helped to build powerhouse media brands like HBO, CNBC, and HGTV. She was the co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. Under Packard’s helm, HGTV became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. Today HGTV is available in more than 98 million U.S. homes and distributed in over 200 countries and territories. Packard helped to build Scripps Networks Interactive to a market value of over $15 billion. In December of 2019 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from Michigan State University. The W2W Coaches Corner is a weekly episodic podcast during which our team of experts bring you valuable insights and inspiration from their work with executives and entrepreneurs from across the country! Our coaches include BJ Gray, the founder of GrayMatter Coaching, whose experience as a top executive with Fortune 500 companies gives her a unique understanding of what both employees and companies need to be successful. She started GrayMatter Coaching to help leaders improve their inner game. Listen (and subscribe!) to our interview with Susan below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Radio.com or iHeartRadio!
What traits do we want to grow in our students so that they can flourish in a world where work may and likely will be very different? That’s the central question we ask in this Open to Learn Episode. We’re very happy to have Chris Powell, CEO and founder of Talmetrix, on this podcast. Talmetrix is a feedback and analytics company that helps organizations produce and leverage insights to improve employee and organizational performance. Given Chris’s background and knowledge on the workforce, we thought it’d be fun to talk about how education might be shaping kids for the future of work. I’m changing things up a bit for this interview. Joining me in the interview is my good friend Keith Millard. Keith is superintendent of Batavia Local Schools and a big picture thinker. His perspectives are quite helpful in this fun exchange of ideas and concepts. Chris PowellCEO of TalmetrixChris is an HR veteran with over 20 years of enabling high performing companies such as Deloitte, Marriott International, Voya and Scripps Networks Interactive. He brings this experience to Talmetrix to develop technology-enabled solutions that help improve engagement, performance, retention and business outcomes. Chris understands the dynamic relationship of how the employee experience impacts organizational performance and outcomes. Keith MillardSuperintendent of Batavia Local Schools SchoolsKeith serves as the superintendent of Batavia Local Schools. Keith has many years of experience as a classroom teacher, a building administrator, and a district leader. Professionally, his interests are in education policy and growing students. Other interests include music, technology, and learning. The one theme that emerges repeatedly in this episode is curiosity. Chris emphasizes the need for education to not just focus on the “what” when learning, but the “why”. That’s what is required of tomorrow’s workforce. And, arguably, required to fulfill our lives as humans. Fun Conversation Points and Questions in this Episode The importance of logic and reasoning in your everyday individual looking for a job. We need students to think logically and creatively. How do we find a balance between two sides of the brain? Do we need to find balance? It appears that state based accountability systems do a poor job of capturing / measuring the qualities needed for students to flourish in future job environments. What, then, should policy makers do? What do employers look for? The three Es. Education, experience, and exposure. Do we want to define success in education purely on the ability to become a worker and contributing to growth / GDP? What should the purpose of education be? What is the 5th Industrial Revolution? Does college really matter? (Yes. They help with learning agility.) How do we and our students handle distractions? How do we make all work meaningful? Can we? (Chris thinks we can.) Our Nostalgia Sponsor This episode of Open to Learn is sponsored by the Presidential Fitness Challenge.
Join Andrew Lees and Clint McPherson (That Entrepreneur Life) with NJ Pesci as they talk about fostering winning leadership and company culture. He shares his transition from working at Procter and Gamble to Food Network and eventually started his own consulting company. NJ gives the usual things he’s noticed among the companies he’s worked with, such as not being able to figure out the direction of the business, the lack of communication, and being efficient, but ineffective. They also get into the correct culture that companies have to instill the right mindset to employees. By the end of this episode, you will learn to stop when you need to, have clarity in the decisions you make, and stop avoiding those choices. Enjoy the episode!About NJ Pesci:With more than thirty years of global leadership proficiency, NJ Pesci has a demonstrated track record of helping businesses develop and transform through strategic and organizational excellence. His career includes leadership roles at The Procter & Gamble Company, a C-Suite/Board facing role at Scripps Networks Interactive, multiple international and domestic acquisitions as well as roles with the U.S. Department of Defense.You can find NJ Pesci on...Website: https://ovidgroupe.com/Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ovid-groupe/Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nj-pesci-3934423/Connect with That Entrepreneur Life on...Website: https://thatentrepreneurlife.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thatentrepreneurlife/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurlifepodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatEntreprene1YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKPkF39Z6r2l9AT4k-tDtgSupport the show (https://thatentrepreneurlife.com/support-the-show)
On today's show, Tim welcomes former MLB pitcher Ron Swoboda, who discusses his career in the MLB, his life post-MLB, this current MLB season, and promotes his new memoir entitled Here's the Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More. Then, Tim invites Susan Packard, cofounder of HGTV, and several other Scripps Networks Interactive network channels, to discuss her new book, Fully Human: 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life, which shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity—in work and life—via her three-step path toward Emotional Intelligence Fitness.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a Closer Look at Susan Packard. She was on the startup teams for HBO and CNBC and the cofounder of HGTV and Scripps Networks Interactive, which became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. In 2008 she was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. She is the author of the bestseller, “New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace.” Susan Packard joins former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt to talk about her new book, “Fully Human: 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness. It’s been 25 years since Daniel Golman introduced us to “Emotional Intelligence,” or “EQ,” and “Fully Human” sets out to bring EQ current for the realities of the new workplace Host: Arthur Levitt Producer: Madena Parwana
The president-CEO of Discovery Inc. offers a candid assessment of the state of traditional TV in a wide-ranging interview. He talks M&A prospects and gives a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes story of Discovery’s $14 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive. Zaslav also discusses how the management mindset at Discovery changed five years ago thanks to a profound question posted by major shareholder John Malone.
The president-CEO of Discovery Inc. offers a candid assessment of the state of traditional TV in a wide-ranging interview. He talks M&A prospects and gives a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes story of Discovery’s $14 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive. Zaslav also discusses how the management mindset at Discovery changed five years ago thanks to a profound question posted by major shareholder John Malone.
The program all about TV. Our guest: Discovery Channel vice president of production and development Joseph Schneier, discussing the 30th anniversary presentation of Shark Week--the first incorporating talent from channels formerly owned by Scripps Networks Interactive.
For choinquecast seven we connect with Susan Packard, who helped to build powerhouse media brands like HBO, CNBC, and HGTV. She was the co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. Under Packard’s helm, HGTV became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. Today HGTV is available in more than 98 million U.S.homes and distributed in over 200 countries and territories. She is also the author of “New Rules of the Game” - 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace. Susan now writes, speaks, and works with women in all stages of life, at for-profit and not-for-profit companies.
In a career-spanning conversation, Ken Lowe – who built such powerhouse brands as HGTV, The Food Network and the Travel Channel – reveals all: his humble beginnings as a commercial DJ (with Rick Dees); the power of affinity marketing; and what’s next for Scripps as they are acquired by Discovery. For more information and content from the show, follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Also check us out on iHeartRadio and TuneIn. Please read before listening: www.liontree.com/podcast-notices.html
In our first annual PromaxBDA Roundtable Podcast, Tim Thompson and Joel Pilger have a conversation with five amazing guests: Alberto Scirocco, Josh Norton, PJ Richardson, Lorey Zlotnick and Patalia Tate. Back in June in Los Angeles at the Conference, Tim and Joel thought it would be really great to take advantage of everyone being in one place at one time during the year and grab a few of their RevThink clients and create a round-table conversation So they brought together the owners of some of the top agencies, studios and production companies. But just to mix it up a bit, they also invited someone from the client side, to give a contrasting perspective Lorey Zlotnick: executive recently NFL Network, Outdoor Network, FOX and Bravo Then at the last minute, Joel bumped into his former client and now friend: Patalia Tate: VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING & CREATIVE STRATEGY at Scripps Networks Interactive. Patalia was kind enough to accept his invitation to join in the roundtable, as well.
On this episode of Smart Companies Radio, meet Susan Packard, co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV, the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet. Susan was also president of worldwide distribution for the Scripps cable brands. Packard will be the keynote speaker this year at the 2016 Central Exchange Lyceum April 26th in Kansas City. And after twenty years helping to launch HGTV, Packard is now an author with the release of her book, ”New Rules of The Game” that some are calling a new guide for women in business. To hear more shows with host Kelly Scanlon, please visit our archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join us today on Women Leading the Way Radio as Michelle Bergquist, your host of Women Who Lead interviews Susan Packard, Co-founder of HGTV, media executive, speaker, and author.l Susan's new book “New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace!” Is a must read for all women in the workplace. Susan teaches you about gamesmanship and how to develop the strategic thinking, often used by men in competition from sports to video gaming. Susan is the co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and the former COO of HGTV. Susan describes herself as an intrapreneur, someone who has help to build media brands from the ground floor. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Connected Women of Influence, Michelle Bergquist is a passionate advocate for women in business. At Connected Women of Influence, we believe that more women need to lead in business and everything we do is center-focused on designing platforms, programs, connections and collaborative opportunities for b2b women to prosper, succeed and lead the way in business today!
Segment 1: Susan Packard is the cofounder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. She is the author of New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace.Segment 2: Nicole Lapin is the author of the New York Times bestseller Rich Bitch: A Simple 12 Step Plan for Getting Your Financial Life Together…Finally. She was the youngest anchor ever at CNN and then went on to claim the same title at CNBCSegment 3: Marianne Markowitz is the Regional Administrator for the Small Business Association's Midwest Region. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed Markowitz to serve on the City of Chicago's Small Business Advisory Council.Segment 4: How to Get UnstuckSegment 5: Barbara Weltman is attorney and best-selling author of numerous business, tax, and finance books, including the perennial J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes and J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks.Sponsored by Sage, Nextiva and The UPS Store.
What happens when your team uses Lean Startup methods, but other people in your organization don’t? Manuel Rosso, VP of Commerce at Scripps Networks Interactive, explains how his team taught coworkers to value experimentation over expertise.
PART 1:[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2014 session, "From Wholesaler to Retailer: Making Unbundling Work for Content Owners." The session was described in the show brochure as follows:"In addition to providing a reliable income to content owners, MSO's (and virtual MSO's) take on a role of selling and servicing individual customers--in effect a retail business model. One of the implications of the Great Unbundling and of content owners going 'direct-to-consumer' is that those content owners are entering the retail marketplace and will need to be able to handle all of the technical and operational issues that come from that decision. Moving video content from a server to any screen is only part of the challenge--a complete digital media supply chain for an unbundled world needs to encompass sophisticated cataloging, commerce and customer service operations, as well as the basics of having a solid media distribution infrastructure and user experience.This session will focus on what it takes to add a working content retailing capability to a formerly 'wholesale-only' content business, zeroing in on the biggest gaps in supposedly 'end-to-end' media platforms and looking at the key requirements of standing up a working media store." Panelists included:Jeff Allen, VP of Corporate and Business Development, ClearleapMartin Focazio, Managing Director, Strategic Services, EPAM Systems (Moderator)Scott O'Neill, SVP of North America, MPP Global SolutionsDebby Ruth, VP of National Television and Video, Frank N. Magid AssociatesWes Williams, Director of Product Management, Scripps Networks Interactive
"From Wholesaler to Retailer: Making Unbundling Work for Content Owners" at TVOT NYC 2014[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2014 session, "From Wholesaler to Retailer: Making Unbundling Work for Content Owners." The session was described in the show brochure as follows:"In addition to providing a reliable income to content owners, MSO's (and virtual MSO's) take on a role of selling and servicing individual customers--in effect a retail business model. One of the implications of the Great Unbundling and of content owners going 'direct-to-consumer' is that those content owners are entering the retail marketplace and will need to be able to handle all of the technical and operational issues that come from that decision. Moving video content from a server to any screen is only part of the challenge--a complete digital media supply chain for an unbundled world needs to encompass sophisticated cataloging, commerce and customer service operations, as well as the basics of having a solid media distribution infrastructure and user experience.This session will focus on what it takes to add a working content retailing capability to a formerly 'wholesale-only' content business, zeroing in on the biggest gaps in supposedly 'end-to-end' media platforms and looking at the key requirements of standing up a working media store." Panelists included:Jeff Allen, VP of Corporate and Business Development, ClearleapMartin Focazio, Managing Director, Strategic Services, EPAM Systems (Moderator)Scott O'Neill, SVP of North America, MPP Global SolutionsDebby Ruth, VP of National Television and Video, Frank N. Magid AssociatesWes Williams, Director of Product Management, Scripps Networks Interactive
Why should Fortune 1000 companies be concerned with gTLDs, and how do the new gTLDs fit into a company’s overall brand strategy? Listen in as we discuss the use of domain names, social media, technology and mobile apps for marketing and brand awareness.
Ken Lowe, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Scripps Networks Interactive speaks on the topic of Leadership