https://deadline.com/2019/09/starz-jeffrey-hirsch-deal-president-ceo-1202745737/
Lionsgate has announced leadership changes at Starz.
Lionsgate has promoted Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch to President and CEO of the premium network, inking a new long-term contract. He had been upped to chief operating officer in 2016 and has been running the network since the March exit of former Starz CEO Chris Albrecht.
At the time, the notion was that the CEO position at Starz was being eliminated following the network’s acquisition by Lionsgate which has its own CEO, Jon Feltheimer, to avoid having a company with two CEOs. But over the past few months, Hirsch reportedly impressed his bosses at Lionsgate by leading Starz’ successful OTT and global expansion — Starz is currently in almost 50 countries and is projected to hit 6 million SVOD subscribers by end of fiscal year — as well as the network’s collaboration — and integration — with Lionsgate Television.
Lionsgate has announced leadership changes at Starz.