• Jana Winograde

    Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and Administration, ABC Entertainment Group
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    Jana Winograde was named executive vice president, Business Affairs and Administration, ABC Entertainment Group, in June 2009. In this capacity she oversees deals, agreements and general business related to the development and acquisition of all primetime and late-night programming, marketing and ABC.com. Additionally, Ms. Winograde provides business oversight of the development and production of network, cable and syndicated programming and the licensing of such programming to distributors and exhibitors. She also oversees the business elements of the music department, which sets music policy and handles music licensing and administration.

    Previously, Ms. Winograde was executive vice president, Business Affairs, ABC Entertainment, ABC Daytime and SOAPnet, a position she had held since December 2006. Prior to that, as executive vice president, Business Affairs, ABC Entertainment, Ms. Winograde was responsible for overseeing all business affairs for ABC Primetime and Late-Night programming. In her current capacity she has the added responsibility of overseeing business affairs for ABC Daytime and SOAPnet, as well.

    Ms. Winograde was named senior vice president, Business Affairs, ABC Entertainment, in December 2000. She had been vice president, Business Affairs and Administration, ABC Entertainment since August 1998.

    She joined ABC in January 1994 as an assistant general attorney, Litigation and Employment Practices. She was promoted to general attorney, Legal and Business Affairs, Production and Multimedia, as well as general attorney, Law and Regulation, in January 1995. In August 1996, she was named director of Business Affairs and Contracts, ABC Entertainment.

    Prior to joining ABC, she was an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson.

    Born and raised in California, Ms. Winograde is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and holds a BA in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego.

    She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.