Steve Burns Joins Nat Geo as EVP of Content

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Steve Burns has joined National Geographic Channel in Washington as executive vice president of content. He will be responsible for all programming, including strategy, development, production, acquisition and scheduling.


He was formerly the executive VP of production and chief science editor at The Discovery Channel,

Burns succeeds John Ford, who is exiting National Geographic to form his own production company, according to the channel.

 It will be a homecoming for Burns. From 1983 to 1992, he was a producer with National Geographic Telelvision.

 National Geographic Channel is a co-venture of the National Geographic Society and Fox.

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.