AMC's Charlie Collier named CEO of Entertainment for the new Fox corporation
AMC President and General Manager Charlie Collier has been tapped as the next CEO of Entertainment for Fox, the company that will be spun off from the Disney [s:dis] acquisition of 21st Century Fox, [s:fox] Lachlan Murdoch, chairman and CEO of the new Fox company said in a press release late Friday. Collier will oversee the Fox Broadcasting Network and lead the company's entertainment programming strategy across live, scripted and non-scripted content, Murdoch said. Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen and CEOs of the Fox Television Group, will stay in their current roles until the close of the transaction.
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