Staff switches at Access Hollywood

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Clay Smith has been promoted to senior producer on NBC Enterprises' Access
Hollywood, while Adam Jordan has been hired as supervising producer of film
segments, executive producer Rob Silverstein said Thursday.

Smith has been at Access Hollywood since 1997, when he began as a
coordinating producer. He also appears on the show as a film critic.

Prior to joining Access Hollywood, Smith worked on Paramount Television's
Entertainment Tonight for 14 years.

Jordan returns to Access Hollywood after two years as executive
director of national publicity for Buena Vista Pictures Marketing. Jordan was
one of Access Hollywood's original producers.

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.