Dewey Handles Turner's Funny Money

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Sandra Dewey has been handling dramatic dollars, and now she'll get to handle the funny money, too. Dewey has been given the purse strings to TBS Superstation originals, as well as those at Turner Network Television.

She had been senior VP,  original programming, for TNT, which Turner bills as its drama destination, has been given additional responsibilites for the financing of originals  at TBS,' which Turner likes to call TV's "very funny" network.

Based in Los Angeles, Dewey will oversee business affairs, production and financing of reality series, scripted series and movies for the pay TV networks.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.