Sportsman Channel’s Nory LeBrun Named to CableFax Hall of Fame
OutdoorHub 06.11.14
With a career that spans more than three decades, Sportsman Channel’s Nory LeBrun has seen the television industry grow leaps and bounds. Not only has he seen it grow, he has been in the forefront of pioneering its growth. As a result, LeBrun has been named to the CableFAX Hall of Fame in ceremonies yesterday at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.
Today, LeBrun serves as Sportsman Channel’s head of affiliate sales and has been instrumental in the network’s success of growing distribution by millions of homes.
“We are extremely proud of Nory’s work at Sportsman Channel,” said Gavin Harvey, CEO of Sportsman Channel. “Nory’s CableFAX Hall of Fame induction is testimony to what we have known for years – he is one of the best in the business at what he does.”
Throughout his career in television, LeBrun’s highlights include: the pioneering launch of national cable and broadcast television networks; as an owner/operator of broadcast television stations; and as a leader in industry-related companies outside the traditional television media.
Working alongside Ted Turner in the early 1980s, LeBrun helped define the cable industry before most people knew the paradigm of television was changing. As Vice President of Turner Cable Sales & Marketing, LeBrun hired and led Turner’s original affiliate sales and marketing team. He was author of the ad sales/fee-based financial structure for CNN, CNN Headline News and WTBS – a financial blueprint that continues to be widely used by cable networks today.
LeBrun also helped guide Food Network to become the preferred dish among cable networks with pre-launch financing and assembling the original team for distribution and marketing. Following his stint at Food Network, he served as Executive Vice President of Cable & Broadcast Affiliate Sales and Marketing at Home Shopping Network. He led the team that made HSN a household name, adding more than 23 million subscribers over a three-year period.
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