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Oren Lieber Elevated to Vice President, National Accounts, Fox Cable Networks and Matt Grim Named Director, Affiliate Sales & Marketing, Fox Sports En Espanol

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 18:00 CDT

Fox Cable Networks (FCN) has promoted Oren Lieber to Vice President, National Accounts, Affiliate Sales & Marketing, and named Matt Grim Director of Affiliate Sales & Marketing for Fox Sports en Español, it was announced today by Mike Biard, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Sales and Todd Schoen, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Marketing and Local Ad Sales.

"During his tenure at Fox, Oren has established himself as a critical member of our National Accounts team. His strategic approach and attention to detail have played a crucial role in many of our deals," Biard stated.

"We're equally excited to have Matt join our team. His knowledge and experience will help us continue to strengthen the Fox Sports en Español brand and identify new and exciting opportunities in the Spanish-speaking market," Schoen stated.

Lieber's responsibilities include daily management of select national accounts, while also providing senior management strategic support through evaluation and analysis of deal negotiations and agreement compliance. Lieber began his career with FCN in 1999 as Manager of Network Development and was later promoted to Director of National Accounts. Prior to joining FCN, Lieber was Account Manager, Western Division at The Weather Channel. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

Joining as Director, Grim is responsible for promoting the development and implementation of national marketing and sales strategies for Fox Sports en Español and as such will work closely with FCN's affiliate sales team to develop new campaign strategies, affiliate marketing and local ad sales promotions and merchandising. His responsibilities include identifying and organizing local community events and sponsorship opportunities, while managing the Fox Sports en Español brand.

Grim first joined the News Corp family as an Account Executive for Fox News Channel and Fox Movie Channel in 1998 and was later promoted to Regional Manager, Affiliate Sales & Marketing for Fox News Channel. Most recently, Grim was Director of Affiliate Relations for TuTv Networks, a Televisa and Univision joint venture responsible for the distribution and marketing of five U.S. Televisa networks. His past experience also includes work with the DC United soccer team. Grim graduated from The College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts in Government.

Fox Cable Networks (FCN), a unit of the Fox Networks Group, a wholly owned division of News Corporation (NYSE:NWS), includes more than 30 domestic programming services in which News Corporation holds interests. These networks collectively service more than 400 million television homes and represent one of the media industry's largest and most diverse groups of programming operations. FCN networks include FX, FSN and its 18 owned-and-operated regional sports networks; National Geographic Channel; National Geographic Channel HD; SPEED; FUEL TV; Fox College Sports; Fox Soccer Channel; Fox Sports en Español; Fox Movie Channel, Fox Reality and the Big Ten Network. FCN also includes Fox Sports Enterprises, which manages interests in sports franchises and leading statistical information provider STATS, LLC.

Source: Business Wire

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