BERNARD GERSHON
Senior Vice President/General Manager
ABC News Digital Media Group
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Bernard Gershon is senior vice president/general manager of the ABC News Digital Media Group, responsible for developing revenue opportunities and distributing ABC News content to all digital media platforms. He oversees all business initiatives in the narrowband, broadband, wireless, cable, video-on-demand, home video and international markets. ABCNEWS.com, ABC News Productions, and ABC News Video Source report to him. Mr. Gershon joined ABCNEWS.com in 1999 as vice president and general manager. In the last 5 years he has guided ABC News to a leadership position in the programming, marketing and delivery of streaming media. Under Mr. Gershon’s direction, ABCNEWS.com has marked several important milestones, its first two years of profitability and numerous prestigious awards for online journalism, including the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow award for Overall Excellence. In 2002 Mr. Gershon introduced ABCNEWS.com’s first standalone subscription service, “ABC News On Demand,” which offers the latest video news content from ABC News programs including World News Tonight and Nightline, and exclusive interviews from Good Morning America, This Week, and news magazines 20/20 and Primetime Live. Acknowledged within the industry as a pioneer in streaming media, as early as 1995 Mr. Gershon started ABC’s first streaming media Internet site—ABCRadioNet.com. In March 2003 he created ABC News Live, the Web’s first 24/7 streaming news network. “Politics LIVE,” a political newscast and the first regularly scheduled programming on ABC News Live, premiered in August 2003. In July 2004 ABC News Live was re-launched as ABC News Now—a groundbreaking service available on digital cable, broadband and wireless. Peter Jennings anchored gavel-to-gavel convention coverage and will contribute to special election night programming. This expanded news channel is available to more than 36 million Internet viewers, including AOL, Comcast.net, SBC Yahoo! DSL, and BellSouth FastAccess subscribers—plus over six million digital cable viewers. ABC News is the largest content provider for RealOne Mobile, a streaming video service for mobile devices. ABC News Now is also available live to MobiTV subscribers with Sprint PCS Vision phones. ABC News expects to roll out audio and video content for additional carriers in 2004. Mr. Gershon started the first regularly scheduled Webcast for the Internet (SAMDONALDSON@ABCNEWS.com), and expanded that offering with the Internet-only Webcast, "Political Points,” co-produced with the New York Times. He also oversaw the creation and development of the Internet-exclusive investigative series, "Internet Exposé," hosted by ABC News' Chris Wallace. Mr. Gershon was named #9 on Streaming Media Magazine’s Top 50 Most Influential figures in streaming media in 2003. Previously, Mr. Gershon was vice president of ABC News Radio, responsible for all information programming produced for the ABC Radio Networks’ 140 million weekly listeners. During his tenure, the ABC News Radio staff received the RTNDA’s Edward R. Murrow award for Overall Excellence for four consecutive years. Before joining ABC News in 1993, Mr. Gershon was associate director, news and programming for WCBS NewsRadio 88. He also served as news director of WOR Radio, New York.