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-direct Business Affairs for CBS Entertainment and Studios, are expanding their duties to oversee News and Stations, Sporting activities, and CBS Media Ventures.

Cheeks laid out their new roles in a memo to workers, composing. “As executive vice presidents and co-heads of Organization Affairs for CBS, they will supply leadership, strategy, guidance and aid to all our outstanding B.A. teams. Incredibly equivalent to our centralized structure for Communications, Marketing and Finance, the divisional B.A. groups will report right to Allison and Jeeun, when continuing to get the job done closely with their respective divisional leaders. Allison and Jeeun have accomplished a excellent position top B.A. at both of those CBS Entertainment and CBS Studios in excess of the earlier 12 months and a 50 %.”

Brightman will operate mostly with the Studios and Media Ventures groups although Jeeun will focus on Entertainment, Information and Stations, and Athletics.

“A strong Organization Affairs procedure is a critical driver of our success in a quickly evolving media world, and I believe this unified structure is a acquire for all CBS teams. Every single division can gain from the combined expertise and skill sets throughout all our business enterprise strategists and negotiators, regardless of the type of content, expertise and platforms they deal with. Please join me in congratulating Jeeun and Allison on their recently expanded roles and thanking them for their important contributions to CBS!” he wrote.

Brightman was named executive vice president of CBS Tv Studios in January 2020 and later co-head of Organization Affairs for Studios and Entertainment with Kim in October 2020. She to start with joined CBS in 2006 as vice president of Business Affairs and was promoted to senior vice president in 2012, incorporating CBS All Accessibility to her portfolio in 2017. Prior to becoming a member of CBS, she was senior authorized counsel at HBO given that 1998.

Kim, who started her career as a law firm at  Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in New York, was director of Business Affairs (Original Series) for Netflix till Oct 2020, in which she led a staff of negotiators handling progress, generation and license deals for scripted development initiatives and sequence. Prior to that, she held a number of senior roles at various divisions at NBCUniversal, together with NBC Community, United states, Syfy, Universal Cable Productions and Common Television.