Former NBC Sports sales boss Seth Winter to join Fox
Former NBC Sports ad sales chief Seth Winter has been tapped to tackle an analogous role for the new-look Fox. In doing so, he'll be reunited with former NBC colleague and recently-named Fox ad sales president Marianne Gambelli.
Winter, who relinquished oversight of NBC's sports sales in September 2016, just a few weeks after he'd booked a record $1.2 billion in national ad revenue for the Rio Summer Olympicsan effort that resulted in a profit in excess of $250 millionwill report directly to Gambelli. Winter and Gambelli worked together in NBC's sales organization for the better part of a dozen years, an association that ended in 2013, when she left 30 Rock to serve as chief investment officer and executive vp of Horizon Media.
Gambelli returned to the supply side of the negotiations table in May 2017, when she was hired to succeed longtime Fox News ad sales boss Paul Rittenberg. After some 15 months, Gambelli took on even greater responsibilities, inheriting the lead ad sales role for all sports, news and entertainment assets from Joe Marchese.