Scripps shakes up TVN leadership

Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) has appointed its chairman, president and CEO Kenneth W Lowe to the board of Polish broadcaster TVN.

Lowe will take up the role of chair of the supervisory board of TVN, the Warsaw-based, multi-platform media company that SNI took a controlling stake in during July 2015.

At the same time, president of SNI, Jim Samples, who has been leading TVN on an interim basis since July last year, has been appointed president of TVN’s management board with day-to-day oversight of the company.

Samples will continue as president of SNI’s international operations.

TVN’s ratings in 2016 were driven by entertainment formats such as Kuchenne Rewolucje, Mam Talent, MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, SNI said. Its new shows have included drama series Druga Szansa, reality show Azja Express, and the docusoap 19+.

“Under the ownership of Scripps Networks Interactive, TVN has gone from strength to strength in the last eighteen months, across the full range of entertainment, news and lifestyle networks,” said Lowe.

“The company is central to our plans to grow our business outside the United States, and I am looking forward to working even more closely with the supervisory board as we look to achieve that.”