Starz Promotes Brad Martens to Senior Vice President, Broadcast Engineering & Jason Wyrick to Senior Vice President, Digital ...
June 16 2016 - 11:30AM
Business Wire
Ray Milius, Executive Vice President of Programming Operations
for Starz, announced the promotion of Brad Martens to Senior Vice
President, Broadcast Engineering and Jason Wyrick to Senior Vice
President, Digital Platforms.
Based in the company’s Colorado headquarters, Martens is
responsible for the engineering, operations and transmission of the
STARZ and STARZ ENCORE channels. He oversees the broadcast
engineering and operations team while supervising the quality
control of on-air and on-demand product playback and distribution.
Martens collaborates daily with programming, media systems and IT
development, IT services, sales, marketing and legal departments,
as well as with cable/DBS operators, broadcast equipment companies,
set-top manufacturers, IPTV systems manufacturers, satellite
providers and satellite encoding & transmission manufacturers
and suppliers to support/expand Starz’ linear channels, on-demand
products, IP streaming products, and development of new products
and services.
Prior to joining the Starz engineering team in 2008, Martens was
a Project Engineer with Beck Associates designing and integrating
High Definition television technology into multiple major market
broadcast television stations. Before joining Beck, Martens served
as Senior Director of Engineering and Operations for TCI/AT&T
Broadband’s Digital Media Center where he was responsible for the
technical facilities and channel origination operations of numerous
cable networks, post production and studio production
facilities.
Martens is a graduate of the University of Colorado – Denver
with a B.S. in Business and Information Systems.
Wyrick is responsible for all technical aspects of externally
facing systems including the STARZ app, Starz.com and affiliate
integrations. He oversees the Digital Platforms team of more than
50 developers, creators and application engineers, leading the
development, launch and ongoing management of digital products and
services. He also collaborates with the programming, marketing, IT
development, sales and legal teams in planning, strategy and
execution of Starz content, services, products and experiences
including mobile applications, web experiences and customer
support.
Also based in the company’s Colorado headquarters, Wyrick joined
Starz in 2005 and was most recently Vice President of Digital
Platforms at Starz. Prior to joining the company, Wyrick held a
variety of management and engineering positions at both Fortune 500
companies as well as startups. Wyrick is a graduate of the
University of Colorado - Boulder with a Bachelor’s of Science
degree in Engineering.
About Starz
Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global
media and entertainment company with operating units that provide
premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay
television networks (Starz Networks) and global content
distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com. The Starz
Networks operating unit is home to the flagship STARZ® brand with
24.0 million subscribers in the United States as of March 31, 2016,
with the STARZ ENCORESM network at 32.4 million subscribers.
Through STARZ, the company provides high quality, entertaining
premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV
channels and associated on-demand and online services. STARZ is
sold through U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable
operators, satellite television providers, telecommunications
companies, and other online and digital platforms. Starz offers
subscribers more than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes
and feature films every year and up to 1,500 every month, including
STARZ Original series, first-run movies and other popular movie and
television programming. The Starz Distribution operating unit is
home to the Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Digital, and Starz
Worldwide Distribution divisions. In addition to STARZ Original
series, Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires movies,
television and other entertainment content for worldwide home
video, digital, and television licensing and sales.
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