WBTV Boss Channing Dungey to Keynote Banff World Media Competition
Warner Bros. Tv Neighborhood chairman and CEO Channing Dungey is determined to reach relieve to the Banff World Media Competition to keynote its 2024 edition.
Dungey did an informal dialog look in Banff in 2021 soon after being named to pass up the Hollywood studio’s TV community. And in 2018, Dungey used to be in Banff for a keynote take care of when serving as chairman of ABC Entertainment, which used to be followed by a snappy stint at Netflix as vp of fashioned series.
“Channing’s unparalleled abilities and insights are a key driver in shaping the procedure in which forward for the leisure commerce. She is a visionary whose affect transcends screens,” Jenn Kuzmyk, Banff govt director, acknowledged in an announcement.
At WBTV, Dungey runs a TV studio tethered to Max, a streaming platform, and within a Warner Bros. commerce now piece of Warner Bros. Discovery. In all, Dungey oversees TV manufacturing on almost 90 scripted, unscripted and exciting series for streaming platforms, cable and broadcast networks.
Her look in Banff arrives as Hollywood’s studios and streamers emerge from twin strikes and are truly in a fee-reducing mode. At the the same time, Warner Bros. Discovery is making an strive to continue the rollout of Max in key global markets, and bolster its inventive pipeline across its film and TV studios.
Dungey will bring a keynote take care of at Banff’s 45th edition dwelling to breeze June 9 to 12 as piece of the Summit Sequence sidebar. Banff earlier offered Hang Wade, CEO of Fox Entertainment, will also bring a Summit Sequence keynote at the festival.
Dungey and Wade will headline a festival dwelling to debut Soundtrack, a program targeted on veil-essentially based fully fully tune because the lines between technology, man made intelligence and leisure more and more blur.