We're not seeing enough women rising to the top.
— Nancy Dubuc
'The Client List' represents everything we want to be - fresh, exciting, and original with attitude.
As a global media company, A+E Networks continually seeks to create new and exciting content that will attract audiences today, tomorrow, and beyond. By investing in Vice, we are thrilled about our potential to further deliver content that meets the demands of the latest consumption trends.
We love the Vice guys; we believe in them. We're investors. We believe in them, in the creative work that they've done... What they built is incredible.
I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes.
Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices.
'Cinnamon Girl' is a game changer for our network and is exactly the type of show we want to deliver.
Panna is focused on the intersection of premium video content and digital product to deliver great experiences. Given those are areas of focus for FYI, we are extremely excited to partner with Panna.
Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There's nothing stopping us from trying to do that on a week-to-week basis.
If you're going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you're speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what's important and what we're paying attention to.
We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.
We have a powerful portfolio of brands that are well-positioned for future growth, both domestically and internationally.
Beautycon has done an incredible job growing and evolving their business into a major player not only in the experiential marketplace, but also the digital content and ecommerce businesses.
We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.
It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.
You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.
The best advice I give to young people starting out is choose your boss. Regardless of gender, I think it is important to have someone who supports you and lets you take risks without fear of failure.
I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.
From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.
'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.
Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.
We knew that bringing a level of entertainment value to the subject of history was the key to our success.
Shane Smith has led Vice from a fledgling magazine into a global media brand, and all of us at A+E are excited to work with him and his passionate and innovative team.
Hearst makes smart investments and partnerships across important industries, and HearstLive is the perfect opportunity to highlight the amazing innovations coming out of all of those brands.
In this rapidly changing media environment, business transformations need to be closely linked to communications strategies.
I know that when I'm watching a drama that I love, I'm disappointed when it's over at the end of an hour.
If you look at the coverage of female sports and athletics across any of the broadcasters that participate in league rights and/or sports programming, women are underrepresented, and it's a chance and an opportunity for Lifetime to support that movement and the importance of athletics and competition for girls and women.
The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine.
We're trying to create the connections of today that become the next generation's memories of tomorrow.
Successful shows will always generate great business deals in the future.
What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don't know how to fix that.
The History brand has long been a supporter of not only our troops but organizations that support our troops.
Veterans' issues have always spoken to me.
I interned at NBC News and had a great experience there in both New York City and Washington. After graduating, I got an entry-level production job at PBS in Boston. There, I developed the bug for programming and production.
There's still too much filler, copycat programming that's out there. We work so hard to pioneer new ideas, and then those ideas are just regurgitated by other networks. That's not good for anybody, I think. That's not good for our business. That's not good for our audience.
As a former college athlete, I know the importance of sports in the lives of women and girls, and I couldn't be more thrilled to join forces with NWSL and U.S. Soccer to ensure professional women athletes are elevated as the entire country can watch and be inspired by their strength and athleticism.
You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure.
When you meet a veteran, thank them for their service.
Vice has a bold voice and a distinctive model in the marketplace. This channel represents a strategic fit and a new direction for the future of our portfolio of media assets.
So much of our audience is on mobile and online platforms, but there's something special, unique, and unexpected about engaging with such great content at the street level.
You have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control.
We'd all like to be in the business where we don't have to report our numbers, too. You're dealing with a Netflix and an Amazon that don't have to report their viewership. They're not sharing those numbers, so how do you work with a creative entity to renegotiate future seasons when nobody has metrics?
You had a generation of women, of which I'm part, where it was a stigma to be associated with feminism; there was a backlash. Now you have a generation that is clearly embracing feminism because, at the end of the day, the definition of feminism is just equality.
In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry.
We don't see the Lifetime brand as just a television brand. We see it as a female media brand. It has to represent what she is interested in, up and down the spectrum, in all kinds of content.
I think the culture and DNA of our organization is to take risks.
To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power.
You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow.
My heart has always been in programming and marketing.
