As chair of NBCUniversal Cable, Bonnie Hammer oversees the cable brands USA, The Sci-Fi Channel, E!, Bravo, Oxygen and several others. She also is in charge of Universal Cable Productions and Wilshire Studios. The 66-year-old Hammer has played a prominent role in public campaigns to fight hate, discrimination and bullying. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Association of Television Executives’ 2007 Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award; the Crystal + Lucy Award for Excellence in Television by Woman in Film; and the Anti-Defamation League’s Entertainment Industry Award. Source: Wikipedia
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Watch a 2006 interview with Hammer at the National Cable Television Association annual conference. The interview appeared on C-SPAN’s The Communicators; the segment with Hammer begins at 12:08 and ends at 22:46. >>
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