With his team, Bevacqua has concluded many important rights agreements. Most recently, in March 2021, NBCUniversal and the NFL agreed to extend and expand NBC Sports for 11 years to continue hosting Sunday Night Football, the No. 1 prime-time television show for 10 consecutive years of unprecedented time. The deal also includes live coverage of every match from Peacock and Telemundo Deportes for the first time. In addition, NBCUniversal has purchased all U.S. media rights for all U.S. Golf Association championships, including the U.S. Open and U.S. Women`s Open, through 2026.
agreed to extend the Company`s rights to the PGA TOUR for nine years; secured a new NFL Wild Card playoff game Sunday night, which aired live on NBC, Telemundo and Peacock in January 2021; and established NBCUniversal`s multi-year partnership with PointsBet, making PointsBet the official sports betting partner of NBC Sports. In this role, Harris oversees all of Comcast`s international government and regulatory affairs and supports the company`s global operations. In addition, as General Counsel of NBCUniversal, Harris advises the management team and oversees the legal function in all NBCUniversal divisions. She will report to Comcast President and CEO Brian Roberts and NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell. He joined the company in 1992 in the Legal Operations department and later served as Senior Vice President, Commercial and Legal Affairs and Executive Vice President, Commercial and Legal Affairs, where he led all of Universal`s futures transactions and oversaw the commercial and legal departments. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Until 1990, he also worked as an employment lawyer at Manatt, Phelps, Phillips, LLP and later Greenberg Glusker. Yaccarino and its global team of 2,000 people help connect emerging and established brands with hundreds of millions of viewers, increasing economic impact across industries. Since joining NBCU in 2011, her team has generated more than $100 billion in ad sales, expanded the company`s reach globally, forged groundbreaking ad partnerships, launched the first ad-supported streaming service, and invested heavily in data and technology capabilities.
She is the first advertising executive to develop a unified trading system based on technology, One Platform, and to develop unified monetization and enterprise strategy – a practice that has become ubiquitous in the market. In other words, Yaccarino has reshaped the advertising industry for the 21st century. Help us make statutory salaries more transparent. Get exclusive access to anonymized legal salary data. Jen Friedman is Executive Vice President, Communications, responsible for global communications at NBCUniversal. Friedman has more than two decades of experience managing communications and public affairs in politics, business and finance. Prior to joining NBCUniversal in January 2022, she was Managing Director and Deputy Head of Public Affairs at Blackstone, the world`s largest alternative investment manager, where she oversaw global communications across the firm`s operations. Prior to Blackstone, she was Senior Director of Corporate Reputation at General Electric, which was part of the communications leadership team that operates across all of GE`s businesses and regions.
Previously, Friedman held a number of senior positions in the Obama administration, most recently as deputy White House press secretary. In this capacity, she served as spokesperson for President Obama and the White House and led press briefings for the White House press corps. Previously, she was Senior Strategic Communications Advisor for the National Economic Council, where she managed the administration`s economic communications portfolio. She has also held several communications leadership positions in several Cabinet organizations. Prior to joining the government, Friedman led communications for the Albright Stonebridge Group and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
