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" Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices. "
Nancy Dubuc
Looking
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Choices
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" When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write. "
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" I am here to tell you, TV is not dead. Rather, it is constantly evolving as we are. My view is that we are in the next Golden Age of content. If AOL, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Yahoo felt TV was dying, they would not be so eager to play in our sandbox. It is, after all, TV content that's driving their business. "
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" I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes. "
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" I think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of the iceberg under the ocean that keeps it moving, and then it's important to take those swings and see if we can ignite a spark with new audiences. "
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" The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive. "
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" 'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous. "
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" As a global media company, A+E Networks continually seeks to create new and exciting content that will attract audiences today, tomorrow, and beyond. By investing in Vice, we are thrilled about our potential to further deliver content that meets the demands of the latest consumption trends. "
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Today
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" One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done. "
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Employees
Place
People
" I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs. "
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Big
Great
Job
" Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had 'Project Runway,' which was a bit of an island. "
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Never
Just
Island
" You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow. "
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Process
You
Way
" If you're going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you're speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what's important and what we're paying attention to. "
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Brand
End
Media
" We're not seeing enough women rising to the top. "
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Enough
Seeing
Top
" I'm not a very patient person. "
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Person
Very
Patient
" In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy. "
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Success
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Media
" In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry. "
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Generation
Content
Talking
" Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms. "
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Responsibility
Strong
Camera
" A+E has always looked in places where others didn't want to look. There's a service in that. "
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Look
Service
Others
" When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are. "
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Too Much
Just
Me
" We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward. "
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Time
Over
Forward
" I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was 12, I was the center of a lot of adult attention. "
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Grandparents
Only
Attention
" My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment. "
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Birthday
Better
Leadership
" Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility. "
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" It never seems like a good idea to do something that's way out there. But usually, the thing that's way out there is where we are heading. "
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Way
" It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore. "
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Great
Enough
Out
" We'd all like to be in the business where we don't have to report our numbers, too. You're dealing with a Netflix and an Amazon that don't have to report their viewership. They're not sharing those numbers, so how do you work with a creative entity to renegotiate future seasons when nobody has metrics? "
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" Vice has a bold voice and a distinctive model in the marketplace. This channel represents a strategic fit and a new direction for the future of our portfolio of media assets. "
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Voice
Direction
Future
" My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios. "
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Important
" When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn't grown at the same rate. So I think there's a bit of a creative tax on the system. "
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