Nancy Tellem was born on December 13,1952 and is the chief media officer and executive chairwoman of Eko, a start-up which has created an online platform.
12 Facts About Nancy Tellem
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Nancy Tellem is the onetime entertainment and digital media president of Microsoft Xbox Entertainment Studios, and a former president of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group, formerly CBS Entertainment Network and CBS Studios.
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Nancy Tellem is co-founder and CEO of BasBlue, Inc, a nonprofit organization.
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Nancy Tellem got hooked on TV as a child through fan magazines that the networks used to mail out during the summer to promote new shows.
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That year Nancy Tellem ascended to the presidency of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group, where she oversaw programming, development, production, business affairs and network operations for the CBS Entertainment Network and CBS-Paramount Studios.
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Nancy Tellem was responsible for deciding which shows appeared on CBS, supervised the prime-time, daytime, late-night and Saturday morning lineup on both CBS and later, The CW Television Network - the merged network of The WB and UPN - including shows like CSI, Survivor, Everybody Loves Raymond, The King of Queens, and Gossip Girl.
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Nancy Tellem was the second woman in television history, after ABC's Jamie Tarses, to hold the top entertainment post at a major broadcast network.
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Nancy Tellem placed third on Entertainment Weeklys 2008 list of the 25 smartest people in TV for restoring CBS's entire prime-time line-up quickly after the 100-day writers' strike.
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In September, 2012, Nancy Tellem joined the company as entertainment and digital media president, and set about putting together a team to develop entertainment content that would be available exclusively through the Xbox platform.
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Nancy Tellem left the company when the studio shut down in October, 2014.
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Nancy Tellem is an investor in the company, and one of its board of directors.
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In 2015, Nancy Tellem launched BasBlue, Inc a nonprofit organization providing access, programming, mentorship and education to underrepresented and under-resourced women and non-binary individuals.