Company Town : James Warner Named President of CBS TV
CBS Inc. has named James A. Warner president of CBS Television Network, succeeding Peter Lund, who was recently named president of CBS/Broadcast Group.
Warner had been president of CBS Enterprises. Before joining the network in 1989, he was an executive at Home Box Office and HBO Enterprises. He moves into a position that was vacated when Lund was named to succeed Howard Stringer, who left CBS for a new video venture backed by three regional phone companies.
CBS also named Joseph D. Abruzzese president of sales at CBS Television Network.
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