Turner Adds Program Acquisition Exec

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Marna Grantham, who has been consulting Turner Entertainment Group on licensing content to broadband, wireless and other new platforms, is joining the company fulltime.

Grantham is joining as VP, program planning and acquisitions, responsible for identifying acquisition targets and acquiring programming.

She will be based in Atlanta, reporting to Jonathan Katz, senior VP.

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.