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Longtime ABC Entertainment executive Ted Harbert was named President & CEO, E! Networks, the world’s largest producer and distributor of entertainment news and lifestyle-related programming, in July 2004. He recently was promoted to the new position of President & CEO of Comcast Entertainment Group, with oversight of the company’s West Coast properties, including E! Entertainment Television, Style Network and the male-targeting G4 network.
Today, Harbert leads an executive team that oversees the ongoing growth and development of the company’s flagship network, E! Entertainment Television, available in 89 million homes; the rapidly growing lifestyle channel, The Style Network, in 43 million homes; and G4 TV, now in 59 million homes. He is also responsible for directing the activities of E! Online, the Web’s most successful entertainment destination, spearheading new business development, as well as managing the company’s international business operations that span some 120 countries reaching over 600 million viewers globally. In early 2006, Harbert launched a major companywide initiative named "E! Everywhere," dedicated to making E! content available anywhere and any time on all distribution platforms, from online, wireless and broadband (The Vine@E! Online) to satellite radio and video-on-demand. In early 2006, Harbert unveiled E! Everywhere - E!'s ambitious multi-platform content and distribution initiative designed to translate E!'s brand power into new forms of content delivery that service the target audience.
Prior to joining E!, Harbert served as a producer at 20th Century Fox Television. He previously was President of NBC Studios, with responsibility for the development and production of all NBC-owned programming for all dayparts, and was a television producer for DreamWorks SKG. Harbert spent the first 20 years of his career with ABC, ultimately serving as Chairman of ABC Entertainment. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Boston University, Harbert is a member of the Dean's Advisory Board of the USC School of Theater, Film and Television, a Board Member of the USC School of Cinema-Television's Television Advisory Council and the Executive Committee of Boston University's School of Communications. He also serves on the Board of Governors of UCLA's Center for Communication Policy and the Board of Directors for Friends of the L.A. Free Clinic, and is a past President of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
Harbert currently resides in Los Angeles. He has two children, Emily and William
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