{"id":53193,"date":"2018-10-08T13:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53193"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:12:42","slug":"entertainment-company-hires-media-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53193","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Company Hires Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-53194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/56052339-5a69-4544-b5a8-ab434d615191-200x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/56052339-5a69-4544-b5a8-ab434d615191-200x184.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/56052339-5a69-4544-b5a8-ab434d615191-450x415.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/56052339-5a69-4544-b5a8-ab434d615191.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A certain privately owned entertainment company specializing in event and online streamed content production (mostly surfing sport) announced today the hiring of former <strong>Oprah Winfrey Network<\/strong> President&nbsp;<strong>Erik Logan <\/strong>as&nbsp;their new president of content, media and studios. <em><strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;has gone so far as calling it a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/own-shakeup-tina-perry-take-gm-reins-erik-logan-heads-world-surf-league-1150238\"><strong>shakeup at OWN<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt this guy&#8217;s CV is stacked. Take a look:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Logan] led OWN\u2019s turnaround from 2011 and has positioned the company today as the #1 cable network in its target demographic with 5 of the top 20 shows in scripted cable programs for women ages 25-54, more than any other cable network. Before OWN, Logan was Executive Vice President, programming and broadcast operations for <strong>XM Satellite Radio<\/strong>, where he helped build the subscriber base to over nine million subscribers, negotiated partnerships, and managed day-to-day relationships with major content providers including <strong>Major League Baseball<\/strong>, <strong>PGA Tour<\/strong>, <strong>CNN<\/strong>, <strong>Clear Channel Communications<\/strong> and <strong>Fox News<\/strong>. Prior to joining XM, Logan also served as President of Programming for <strong>Citadel Broadcasting<\/strong>, and served for over a decade at <strong>CBS\/Infinity Broadcasting<\/strong> in a variety of roles, including Vice President of programming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re worn-out just reading his bio. Think of how good Erik is at going to meetings? Can&#8217;t say this company isn&#8217;t hiring the best people they can find.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his deep biz cred, Logan is also described as an &#8220;avid waterman,&#8221; co-founder of <strong>Shred &amp; Speed<\/strong>, LLC Infinity SUP, and co-owner in <a href=\"https:\/\/nikaukai.com\"><strong>Nikau Kai Surf Shop<\/strong><\/a> in Manhattan Beach, California. Guess that means he knows which way his fins go.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll just have to wait and see if Logan can find an audience or if he&#8217;ll have to branch out into something other than surfing if they really want to maximize their ROI. Maybe live SUP events or even scripted cable programs for women ages 25-54?&nbsp;Logan starts his new job in January 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A certain privately owned entertainment company specializing in event and online streamed content production (mostly surfing sport) announced today the hiring of former Oprah Winfrey Network President&nbsp;Erik Logan as&nbsp;their new president of content, media and studios. The Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;has gone so far as calling it a &#8220;shakeup at OWN.&#8221; There&#8217;s no doubt this guy&#8217;s CV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53193"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53239,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53193\/revisions\/53239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}