Lombardi Moves to Sesame Street

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Sesame Workshop has named Showtime veteran Michael Lombardi as its new executive VP and CFO. 

In addition to overseeing budgets and financial statements, he will evaluate new business strategies and opportuniteis. Lombardi had been SVP, programming finance, at Showtime. Before that he held a range of financial posts including for noncommercial WNET(TV) New York, ESPN, and NBC. In addition to  Sesame Street, the workshop's shows include Dragon Tales and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.