Bryant joins BVT

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Blake Bryant has been named vice president of creative services at Buena
Vista Television, said Sal Sardo, executive VP of marketing for the company, to
whom Bryant reports.

In his new job, Bryant will be responsible for trade and consumer advertising
for BVT's syndicated programming, movie packages and pay-per-view.

Bryant comes to BVT from Granite Broadcasting Corp.-owned NBC affiliate
KNTV-TV in San Jose, Calif.

He was also VP of advertising, promotion and creative development for NBC
owned-and-operated WMAQ-TV in Chicago from 2000 through 2002, and director of
creative services for NBC O&O KNBC-TV in Los Angeles from 1996 through
2000.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.