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Promotions at Discovery Channels Announced

Sep 26, 2005  •  Post A Comment

Discovery Networks U.S. President Billy Campbell announced Monday the promotions of 15-year Discovery veteran Eileen O’Neill to executive VP and general manager of the Discovery Health Channel and Vivian Schiller to executive VP and general manager of the Discovery Times Channel.

“Eileen and Vivian are tremendous leaders,” Mr. Campbell said. “Under their leadership, Discovery Health Channel and Discovery Times Channel have experienced strong ratings growth and developed authoritative and compelling real-world content.”

Before her promotion Ms. O’Neill was senior VP and general manager of Discovery Health, where she supervised such annual programming as “Birth Day Live!” and “National Body Challenge.” Ms. O’Neill is also responsible for the series “Babies: Special Delivery.”

Ms. Schiller joined Discovery in 2002 as senior VP and general manager after 14 years at Turner Broadcasting System, where she reached the position of head of CNN’s long-form worldwide programming.