Huszarik promoted to EVP, media research, WBDTD

Long-time Warner Bros. research exec, Liz Huszarik, has been promoted to EVP of media research and insights at Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

Huszarik will co-manage the Media Research & Insights team with long-time department head Bruce K. Rosenblum, who, as chairman of the Time Warner Research Council, will shift his day-to-day responsibilities to focus on the studio’s state-of-the-art Media Labs in Burbank and it’s recently opened site at Manhattan’s Time Warner Center.

Huszarik has been WBDTD’s SVP of media research and insights since 2000. She joined the company as manager of Warner Bros. Media Research in 1991. Prior to joining Warner Bros., Huszarik was an account executive at ABC affiliate KEYT Santa Barbara, Calif. She began her career as a programming associate at TeleRep in New York.

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.