ROBERT WUSSLER
Board of Directors
Since 1992, Mr. Wussler, of Potomac, Md., has been involved with a
range of start-up, entrepreneurial, and mature business relationships with
cable channels and programming companies as President of The Wussler Group.
He has also been active in the worldwide interactive TV industry, as well
as in program syndication. His accomplishments during two decades with CBS
include: responsibility for expanding satellite usage in news coverage;
helping turn around CBS Chicago owned and operated affiliate WBBM-TV;
creating "NFL Today" for CBS; and, negotiating the network's second contract
with the NFL. Under his leadership, CBS became the number one network in
the late 1970s.
As President of COMSAT Video Enterprises, he restructured the
organization and re-focused its strategies as the largest supplier of
satellite-delivered entertainment to the U.S. lodging industry. In nine
years with Turner Broadcasting System and SuperStation WTBS, he provided
leadership in building Cable News Network, Headline News, TNT, the Atlanta
Braves, Atlanta Hawks, TBS Sports, and more. Under his leadership, WTBS
achieved exposure in more than 200 major U.S. markets, reaching 33 million
homes.
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