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Following through on plans first announced last spring, AMC Networks said this evening it has officially begun rolling out a cheaper, ad-supported tier of flagship streaming service AMC+.

Comcast said chairman and chief executive Brian Roberts‘ pay package for 2023 totaled $35.47 million, up from $32 million the year before. It included a $2.5 million base salary, stock awards valued at about $15 million, $9.2 million in option awards and $8.55 million in what’s called non-equity incentive plan compensation – like a cash bonus.

Georgia Juvelis, longtime communications executive at AMC Networks, has been promoted to Chief Communications Officer from her previous role as EVP Corporate Communications, the company announced Thursday.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Better Call Georgia: AMC Networks has promoted longtime corp comm exec Georgia Juvelis to the role of chief communications officer. Juvelis, who had most recently served as exec VP of corporate communications, continues to report to AMC Networks CEO Kristin Dolan, who announced the news on Thursday.

TV analytics firm 605 has been acquired by leading ad measurement company iSpot, the company’s fourth acquisition in five years and its largest to date.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor In a growing market for technology that measures TV audiences, sometimes it helps to extend your yardstick iSpot.tv, one of a number of ad-tech upstarts vying to challenge Nielsen in the tabulation of media viewership, is acquiring 605, a company that specializes in assigning “attribution,” or tracing how exposure to a specific commercial affects an actual sale. The company being acquired, 605, was launched in part by Kristin Dolan, currently the CEO of AMC Networks. Dolan Family Ventures, an entity that makes strategic investments on behalf of Dolan and her husband, James Dolan, who is also the lead of the family that controls AMC and sibling company MSG Networks, will retain a minority stake in iSpot as part of the deal.

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead spinoffs Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live and Interview with the Vampire are set to resume production after AMC Networks struck agreements with SAG-AFTRA.

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead spinoffs Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live and Interview with a Vampire are set to resume production after AMC Networks struck agreements with SAG-AFTRA.

AMC Networks CEO Kristin Dolan offered a wish for labor peace, but she also said the dual WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes wouldn’t begin to threaten the company’s programming supply until “well into 2024.”

AMC Networks posted first-quarter earnings well ahead of Wall Street estimates, boosting shares in pre-market trading.

Kristin Dolan, who took over earlier this year as CEO of AMC Networks, said the company is “very well positioned” to manage through the WGA strike.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer AMC Networks lost 300,000 subscribers across its streaming services in Q1, falling from 11.8 million at the end of 2022 to 11.5 million by March 31, the company reported in its earnings results Tuesday. This drop in subs follows a slight increase of 700,000 paid streaming customers between Q3 and Q4 of last year. AMC Networks’ streaming platforms includes AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK and HIDIVE. Those digital offerings are in addition to the company’s linear channels AMC, BBC America (a joint venture with BBC Studios), IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and IFC Films.

AMC Networks said it paid three former CEOs –Christina Spade, Matt Blank and Josh Sapan — packages worth more than a combined $40 million for 2022.

AMC Networks said it plans to add a cheaper, ad-supported subscription tier of flagship streaming service AMC+ later this year.

more than 25 years’ experience across consumer and integrated marketing, production andevents, and digital media and social. In her current role, Granito built and led a consolidatedintegrated marketing team and launched AMC Networks’ award-winning in-house brandedentertainment and creative studio, Content Room, and its franchise and digital studio givingadvertisers full access to AMCN’s premium content through award-winning creative executions.She previously spent seven years at the company’s IFC network, where she built integratedmarketing, digital media and consumer social groups when the network went ad supported,and worked across consumer and integrated marketing to create campaigns for hit seriesincluding IFC’s “Portlandia” and “Documentary Now!” Prior to that, she held several consumer marketing, promotions and strategic marketing roles at Viacom and NBCUniversal.Granito will report to AMC Networks CEO Kristin Dolan and will continue to be based in New York.“Kim is a seasoned creative leader with a proven ability to drive ad sales partnerships, developinnovative marketing opportunities and launch brands and campaigns that drive audienceengagement and grow revenue,” Dolan said in a statement.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Kim Granito, an executive who has been with AMC Networks for more than a decade, has been appointed head of marketing at the media company, replacing veteran Len Fogge, who intends to retire next month. Granito, who has been executive vice president of integrated marketing at the company, has been at the helm of a range of interesting projects over the years, including an e-commerce venture built around its “Interview With The Vampire” series, as well as broader branded content initiatives that utilize intellectual property from various programs affiliated with AMC cable and streaming properties.

AMC Networks posted strong fourth-quarter results, with total revenue rising 20% over the prior-year quarter to $964.5 million, while earnings per share jumped almost fivefold to $2.52.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer AMC Networks reported its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings Friday, two days after naming Kristin Dolan, wife of the company’s owner, James Dolan, its new CEO. The company says it ended 2022 with 11.8 million paid streaming subscribers across all of its targeted streamers: AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK and HIDIVE. Those digital offerings are in addition to the company’s linear channels AMC, BBC America (a joint venture with BBC Studios), IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and IFC Films. That’s a slight increase of 700,000 customers from the end of Q3, when AMC Networks reported it had reached 11.1 million subs. Meanwhile, U.S. ad sales fell 12% in the quarter.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer AMC Networks has named Kristin Dolan CEO. Dolan, a longtime AMC Networks board member and wife of the company’s owner, James Dolan, will begin her new role Feb. 27. Her appointment to the position comes months after Christina Spade, formerly CFO of the company, stepped down in November after a very brief stint as chief, following the exit of interim CEO Matt Blank. Once Spade left, James Dolan was named interim executive chairman while a search began for another AMC Networks CEO, and announced that “large-scale layoffs” would be hitting the company amid a stall in growth at streaming AMC+ and its smaller platforms Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK and HIDIVE.

The fate of AMC Networks has always been determined by its controlling shareholders, the Dolan family, and now Kristin Dolan will get a chance to get the ailing programmer back on track.

The Wall Street Journal that Kristin Dolan has been a steady presence inside AMC, attending meetings and keeping an office on the executive floor. She founded the marketing analytics company Firm 605 and is a member of AMC Networks’ board.The executive search, which is reportedly being conducted in partnership with recruiter Sucherman Group, follows the departure of former CEO Christina Spade in November after just three months in the role.Representatives for AMC Networks and Sucherman Group did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment.Following his appointment as interim executive chairman, Dolan announced a “large-scale layoff affecting about 20% of AMC Networks’ staff and “cuts to every operating area.”“As I am sure you are aware our industry has been under pressure from growing subscriber losses,” Dolan wrote in a memo to employees at the time.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCount marketing analytics firm 605 among the number of firms that hope to fill in some of the gaps in measuring video audiences as more companies press for alternatives to the current standard, Nielsen.The company, founded by Kristin Dolan and backed by Dolan Family Ventures, the investment arm of the family long associated with the former Cablevision as well as AMC Networks, plans to use its data to launch a media trading currency that can undergird advertising transactions between advertisers and media networks. The “605 Exchange” makes use of a large data set that examines audience and advertising metrics daily.