Steinlauf Promoted to Executive VP at Scripps

Jon Steinlauf was promoted to executive VP, ad sales & marketing at Scripps Networks Interactive.

Steinlauf, who had been senior VP at SNI, is responsible for the strategic direction of the ad sales and integrated marketing efforts of Scripps' media brands including cable networks HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, Cooking Channel and Great American Country.

"Jon leads an extremely talented and motivated team that represents the gold standard in the industry," said Steve Gigliotti, president of national ad sales & marketing and branded entertainment at SNI. "This promotion recognizes that contribution."

Before joining SNI in 2000, Steinlauf worked at Turner Broadcasting and ESPN. He began his career as a media buyer at Young & Rubicam.

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Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.