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44 | Team Captains
Sean Bratches
Title: EVP, Sales &
Marketing, ESPN
Years in Cable: 26
Education: BA,
Business Administration,
Rochester
Institute of Technology
Best Advice: Be yourself, everyone
else is taken.
Christine Driessen
Title: EVP/CFO, ESPN
Years in Cable: 29
Education: Bachelor
of science degree
in accounting,
Fordham University
Best Advice: Communicate with
honesty and conciseness.
45 | Frequent Flyer
Hernan Lopez
Title: President/CEO,
Fox International Channels
Years in Cable: 23
Education: Degree in Advertising,
Escuela Superior de Publicidad de
Buenos Aires; MBA, University of
Miami
Best Advice: Listen, then speak.
When your purview is nearly global,
your impact can be too. To the
46 | Dead Men
Walking
Charlie Collier
Title: President, AMC
Years in Cable: 20, but I like to
think of myself as " in MVPD " so as
not to offend anyone.
Education: BA, Bucknell; MBA
Columbia
Best Advice: Get peoplemeter, watch
more AMC, rewind commercials.
With Collier at the helm of AMC, the
network has enjoyed record ratings,
revenue and profits. To be sure, he
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David Preschlack
Title: EVP, Affiliate
Sales & Marketing,
Disney & ESPN
Media Networks
Group
Years in Cable: 19
Education: BA, Economics,
Denison University
Best Advice: Enjoy the process.
These three team players stretched
the ESPN footprint even further this
past year, negotiating, securing
and managing new long-term
agreements with AT&T U-verse and
NRTC. The comprehensive agreements
include more than 70 Disney
networks and services-including
many of ESPN's linear and digital
platforms. Bratches and Preschlack
also helped ESPN continue to grow
east, Lopez launched Fox Sports
Asia, to the west, Fox Sports EU.
This, of course, on top of managing
a network that reaches 72.3
million homes in 88 countries
outside of the U.S. Would you be
surprised to hear he's also a world
traveler?
I watch the majority of programming
on this device: A Panasonic
Plasma ZT60, which I got just
before they stopped making them.
I wish Congress would just...
its WatchESPN TVE product, now
available to 55 million homes, and
negotiated new deals to service
available to the next-generation
Xbox One console, Roku devices
and via Apple TV. With Driessen
overseeing all of the company's
financial operations worldwide,
you can be sure every " i " was
dotted and " t " crossed when the
deals went down.
Bratches
Favorite Restaurant: Peter Lugar
Beach or mountains? YES
Desert island album? Zeppelin Four
Dish I can make and that would
impress a celebrity chef: Peanut
butter and jelly sandwich
The day we get multiplatform
measurement is the day I... We
have it: Project Blueprint.
Stop online piracy, so the rest of
the world can stop using our failure
to pass SOPA as an excuse.
Twitter or Instagram? Twitter
Oscars or Grammys? Oscars
My favorite business/motivational
book: Good To Great by Jim
Collins
If someone forced me to cut the
cord and only watch 3 over-thetop
shows, they would be: HBO's
" Veep " and Showtime's " Homeland, "
which are both available
on... oh wait... ■
four premiere. Capitalizing on that
success, Collier launched the hugely
popular unscripted " Talking Dead, " to
satisfy fans' voracious appetites for
zombies. It's windows of opportunity
such as these that set this exec apart
and bring AMC into a new age. Stay
tuned for more original scripted fare,
included a " Breaking Bad " sequel from
has some excellent content to work
with: ad men, meth men and dead
men have treated him well, with the
latter garnering an unprecedented
16.1 million viewers live same-day
during " The Walking Dead's " season
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creator Vince Gilligan, tentatively called
" Better Call Saul. " Fun fact about
Charlie: He was a tennis pro during his
college years.
I watch the majority of programming
on this device: Elevator
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news. (Old building)
The biggest innovation in cable
over the last year: The Rob Marcus
career-planning MOOC
TV show I'd most like to have
a cameo in: Since " Word Up " I
haven't seen them in many shows,
possibly Charlie Rose, I'm flexible
on AM or PM
Favorite Cable Show memory:
That booth, the one time, with the
shag rug, breath mints and video
screens.
Favorite Restaurant: Los Pollos
Hermanos, they just catered our
upfront event. ■
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TV show I'd most like to have a
cameo in? " College GameDay "
One thing I would do all the time
if I could: Mentoring young women
Favorite restaurant: My kitchen
Favorite vacation spot: Adirondacks
The last time I had a good laugh:
Five minutes ago
Preschlack
TV show I'd most like to have a
cameo in? " Better Call Saul "
My favorite newfound hobby:
Negotiating TV Everywhere terms
One thing I would do all the time
if I could: Spend time with my family
The last time I had a good laugh:
Today. I make sure I have a good
laugh every day.
Dish I can make and that would
impress a celebrity chef: Chili ■
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