Business Unit News
Fox Networks Group Restructures Business and Legal Affairs Team
June 27, 2011 - In a move designed to better align Fox Networks
Group’s (FNG) business and legal affairs functions, FNG Executive Vice
President and General Counsel Rita Tuzon today announced a restructuring
designed to bring most of the company’s business and legal affairs group
under one umbrella. The move also includes several promotions within her
team.
Claudia Teran, who previously served as Senior Vice President, Business and
Legal Affairs and Associate General Counsel, Fox Cable Networks (FCN), has
been named Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs and Deputy
General Counsel for Fox Networks Group. In her new role, Ms. Teran will be
the number two legal executive for the division responsible for all legal
and business matters pertaining to FNG's cable and broadcast network
distribution, digital new media strategy, and corporate/business
development. She will continue her work with the international division of
FOX Sports Media Group (including FOX Soccer, FOX Deportes in the U.S., FOX
Sports in Latin America, and the worldwide FOX Sports syndication sales
business), Fox Hispanic Media, as well as FUEL TV both domestically and
internationally.
Prior to joining Fox in 2000, Ms. Teran was a transactional attorney at
Sidley & Austin, where she worked on behalf of private and public entities
addressing a wide variety of business dealings and regulatory issues. She
earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and
her law degree from New York University School of Law.
Ms. Tuzon has also promoted three others in the department. Adam Reiss, who
had served as Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs will now serve as
Senior Vice President, Corporate Transactions and Distribution for Fox
Networks Group, with responsibility for complex corporate transactions
including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic
opportunities. He will also continue to work with Fox Networks’ distribution
team on key network affiliation negotiations.
Mr. Reiss has been with Fox since 2004. Previously he was a transactional
attorney with O’Melveny and Myers focusing on securitizations, public
offerings, private placements of debt and equity and mergers and
acquisitions. Mr. Reiss received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA and his law
degree from The University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He will
continue to report to Ms. Teran.
Additionally, Anna Tran Reyna, who previously was also Vice President,
Business and Legal Affairs for Fox Cable Networks, will now serve as FCN’s
Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, Digital Media with legal
responsibility for the division’s diverse digital extensions and
infrastructure, including network websites, Fox Digital Media, digital
content deals, FNG's Hulu and other digital distribution relationships, and
other Fox ventures in the digital arena. She will also continue her work
with FOX Sports Media Group’s online properties, including FOXSports.com.
Prior to joining Fox in 2007, Ms. Tran Reyna was Associate General Counsel
for Ascent Media Group in Santa Monica, handling legal affairs for the
company’s new media initiatives in digital asset management and content
distribution services. She previously was a transactional attorney with
Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto, CA and Musick, Peeler and Garrett in Los
Angeles. Ms. Tran Reyna received her bachelor’s degree from UCLA and her law
degree from the UCLA School of Law. She will also continue to report to Ms.
Teran.
“Fox Networks Group is the most successful programming entity in television,
and our success is due in no small part to the strategic focus of our
business-minded legal team,” said Ms. Tuzon. “This reorganization
streamlines our distribution and content efforts across platforms, which
will not only improve efficiency but increase revenue opportunities for our
networks. Claudia, Adam, and Anna have been at the forefront of these
cross-platform efforts in the digital and distribution areas, and this
reorganization recognizes the valuable role they will play as we take our
content businesses to new heights in the coming years.”
In the sports area, Leanna Einbinder, who previously served as Vice
President, Business and Legal Affairs, has been promoted to Senior Vice
President, Business and Legal Affairs for FCN. "Leanna is a key player in
our professional team and collegiate conference negotiations for Fox
Networks Groups’ many domestic regional and national sports networks,
including FOX Sports, FOX Sports Net, FOX College Sports, Big Ten Network
and Fox’s 19 owned and operated regional sports networks," Tuzon stated. Ms.
Einbinder will continue to be responsible for negotiating and drafting
rights agreements with many of the more than 120 professional and college
sports teams and conferences associated with Fox.
Ms. Einbinder has been with Fox since 2000. She joined the company from the
Los Angeles office of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro LLP where she was a
transactional attorney focusing on negotiating and drafting a wide array of
corporate and business transactions as well as intellectual property-related
legal transactions. Ms. Einbinder received her bachelor’s degree from
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and her law degree from The University of
California’s Boalt Hall School of Law. She will continue to report to Karen
Brodkin, Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs for FCN.
Earlier this year, Ms. Tuzon began the restructure when she reorganized the
cable and broadcast network Standards & Practices Groups, combining them
under the leadership of now-Executive Vice President Elizabeth Casey.
Fox Networks Group, a primary operating unit of News Corporation
(NASDAQ:NWS), consists of Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX), FOX Sports Media
Group, the company’s national and regional cable programming services, FOX
International Channels, and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations. These
units produce, program and transmit much of America’s most popular
entertainment, sports and information content via 37 owned-and-operated TV
networks, video on demand and other media platforms. FOX is America’s most
popular network; Fox Networks Group cable channels span FX, National
Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Fox Movie Channel, FUEL TV, FSN and 19
regional cable sports networks, SPEED, FOX Soccer Channel, FOX Soccer Plus,
Fox College Sports, FOX Deportes and BTN (co-venture with the Big Ten
Conference); and FOX International Channels include 183 networks delivered
in 35 languages across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The division
also includes Fox Sports Enterprises, which manages interests in sports
franchises and leading statistical information provider STATS, LLC.
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Contact:
Scott Grogin
310-369-4733
scott.grogin@fox.com
Brian Peterson
310-369-0009
brian.peterson@fox.com