Menzel moves up at WBDTD

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Dan Menzel has been promoted to senior vice president of cable sales at Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

Anyone wondering why this happened, read this and all will be explained.

Menzel will continue to license Warner Bros. Entertainment’s programming - including TVshows, movies, animated series and digital productions - to pay TV, premium and basic cable nets and satellite services throughout the U.S.

Menzel returned to WBDTD in 2009 - just in time to take Big Bang out for sale — after working at Yahoo! as director of national sales. Before that, Menzel spent ten years at Warner Bros., most recently working as vice president of central sales in Chicago.

Prior to joining Warner Bros., Menzel was division manager at Twentieth Television’s Atlanta office. Prior to that, he was sales director at ITC, and a sales, planning and pricing analyst for the NBC owned and operated stations in New York. He began his career as a research analyst at Seltel.

Menzel graduated from Syracuse University, from which he holds dual bachelor of science degrees in communications and business.

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.