Music TV Network - Affiliate Sales and Marketing Jobs
Location
New York, NY - Midtown Manhattan
Salary
Competitive salary with incentives and comprehensive benefits
Music TV Platforms
Broadcast TV (OTA)
Cable TV (MSO)
Satellite TV
FIOS TV
Mobile Streaming TV
Onlline TV
OEM TV
On Demand TV
Job Summary
A multiplex Music TV network is seeking a growth oriented affiliate sales and marketing professional capable of leading an innovative and technologically advanced music entertainment property comprised of 20 diverse 24/7 music TV video channels across multiple music genres.
Job Duties
Report to the CEO on a strategic and tactical level to optimize Network and channel programming distribution.
Work across all media platforms to include: broadcast, cable, FIOS, satellite, mobile, online, OEM and OD to include all variations of broadcast groups, cable affiliates, DBS and new media partners
Work internally with other VP’s and Directors to bring creative and technical resources together to facilitate affiliate business goals
Work with internal teams to manage the communication, gain buy-in and implementation of marketing and promotional initiatives.
Bring syndication deals for programming to fruition.
Develop, execute, and manage affiliate and syndication activities for the company in an aggressive and intelligent manner.
Manage distribution, sales and marketing activity of affiliate products by creating and developing business plans and marketing promotions for all accounts to maximize distribution and revenue growth.
Leverage live music events and local opportunities within the affiliates network to capitalize on relationships within the music industry
Develop and maintain strong relationships with affiliates and become the client’s main point of contact for all affiliate marketing initiatives.
Manage day-to-day requests with affiliates such as local event support, sponsorships, interviews, premium requests, etc.
Required Skill & Experience
5 to 10 years of TV affiliate sales, marketing experience
Broad knowledge of media distribution across multiple media platforms of music and entertainment programming
Comcast, Time Warner, Hearst, Sinclair, Dish, Azteca, Verizon, FIOS, AT&T, Cable Vision, Samsung, LG, Station Groups and many others are all targets for programming distribution that this executive should have worked with or have the capacity to approach and sell to in a professional and competent manner with efficacy.
Extensive contractual negotiations with cable operators, broadcast groups and or DBS providers.
The ability to represent the TV Network at creative music and TV Network business events and industry shows
Job Contact
Tony Filson President Filcro Media Staffing 521 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10175
Jobs for TV affiliate relations executives with TV Network affiliate sales experience seeking jobs in music and entertainment affiliate sales and TV programming distribution.
Client A music TV network seeking departure from legacy media distribution and consumer music entertainment assimilation. Looking to the future and the way music is produced, distributed, licensed and monetized across (8) eight media platforms, the firm retained Filcro Media Staffing to recruit an executive capable of the leading and building their Affiliate Sales and Marketing function.
Client Situation The President & CEO seeking increased distribution in MSO, OTA, Satellite and Mobile markets required an affiliate executive capable utilizing a CRO mindset based on the Network’s capacity to disseminate across 8 media platforms. As with most emerging Networks graduated steps from 30 - 50 and 100 million households have to be planned appropriately to coincide with programming roll-out. In this instance as a multiplex offering 20 to 40 channels of diverse music genres the affiliate relationships could be for all channels or a selected few.
Executive Search Committee Member(s) Industry and Sector Inclusion
Broadcast Television
Cable Television
Satellite Television
Broadband Television
Mobile Television
Filcro Media Staffing is Retained
The CEO positioned the Network as a unique broadcaster as a multiplex across 8 media platforms and required an affiliate executive who could exhibit efficacy across: Broadcast TV (OTA), Cable TV (MSO), Satellite TV, FIOS TV, Mobile Streaming TV, Online TV, OEM TV and On Demand TV. This unusual abundance of media streams would required an executive capable of synergistically offering programming as few broadcasters could as of the time, of this search.
Working across all media platforms effectively with internal programming, marketing and sales teams would be essential. The creative and technical resource direction required to facilitate affiliate business goals would emanate from this executive.
With internal teams to manage the communication and ideation the implementation of marketing and promotional initiatives would have to be from a honed affiliate executive capable of judiciously directing resources.
Bring syndication deals for programming to fruition would also be required and this “added value” in the executive to be identified was essential.
Unique to the Network was also the leveraging of live music events and local opportunities within the affiliates network to capitalize on relationships within the music industry. A&R. Product Managers and heads of recording companies and music publishers also had to be leveraged so everyone benefited from enhanced distribution.
Managing day-to-day requests with affiliates such as local event support, sponsorships, interviews, premium requests, etc would require an extremely organized affiliate executive capable of working on non-traditional affiliate projects that would monetize the Network in non-traditional ways.
Challenges Facing the new Vice President of Affiliate Sales & Marketing
Establishing the internal resources to work across multiple media platforms
Combining OTA, Mobile, MSO, Satellite, OEM, DOOH, Broadband and OD to work seamlessly with advertising sales and programming initiatives
Create ideation that reflected the immense reach and scope of 40 channels of 24/7 programming across multiple media platforms
Allow for reach in The Americas and International markets to coincide with programming roll-outs
Adapt affiliates to new technology enabling consumers to be monetized as never before. Getting buy-in from broadcasters to adopt this new technology by clearly exhibiting these new monetization channels.
Setting 1-3-5 years goals and budgets for hard and soft assets.
Reporting for 30 to 50 to 100 Million Sub goals
Filcro Media Staffing’s Recruitment Solution
With so many music genres available in multiple languages, Filcro Media Staffing needed to identify an Affiliate Executive capable of functioning autonomously in many areas usually supported by heavy layers of support staff.
The Vice President identified, recruited and attracted with over 20 years of Sales and Marketing experience in the Cable Programming and Music industries had a proven record of success in increasing network distribution and negotiating affiliation agreements with national media companies, music companies and media retail organizations.
With domestic and international Affiliate experience this Affiliate Sales Executive was well suited for the initial roll-out of English and Spanish language programming. With experience in the US, Canada and Latin America having negotiated agreements with DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, AT&T, NCTC, Mediacom, Netflix, Hulu, Roku and others, the multiple platform distribution as a multiplex would be served well.
Most important about this executive is his track-record of strategic and tactical initiatives that met with efficacy. Playing key roles as a coach, player, and player-coach this executive had proven himself in lean and heavily layered environments.
Having prior experience with Networks in the same phase of growth, this Affiliate Sales executive was a perfect fit to build resources and then grow the Network's affiliate infrastructure as needed in the future.
This Affiliate Sales executive has made a smooth transition and had hit the ground running. We look forward to updating this Case History in 2015-2016 to exhibit the executive's progress.
Media and broadcasting executive search firms across multiple media platforms. Tony Filson Officer in Charge of Search Filcro Media Staffing - 1985 - 2015 All Rights Reserved. http://www.ExecutiveSearch.TV Filcro Media Staffing, Inc.
