Pryor Heads Communications for MGM

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Media public relations vet Jeff Pryor is joining MGM in the newly created post of executive VP, corporate communications.

Pryor reports to Chairman Harry Sloan and will oversee communications and PR for a laundry list of divisions--Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., United Artists Films Inc., MGM Television Entertainment Inc, MGM Networks Inc., MGM Distribution Co., MGM International Television Distribution Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC, MGM on Stage, MGM Music, MGM Consumer Products and MGM Interactive.

Pryor has been running his own shop, Priority Public Relations (formerly Pryor & Associates), since 1990.

Priority will continue, headed by Kristien Brada-Thompson in L.A. and Marylou Johnston in Europe. Pryor will also continue as a consultant to Priority.

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.