Lake effect at NBC

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Deborah Lake has been promoted to vice president of commercial standards and
program compliance at NBC in New York.

She will continue reporting to Alan Wurtzel, president of NBC research and
media development.

Lake, who has been with NBC since January 1998, replaces Rick Gitter, who is
retiring after 23 years in NBC's standards department.

She started as manager of program standards in Burbank,
Calif.

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.