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Miami, FL (March 7, 2011)—Donna Cunningham has been named managing director and executive vice president, production, Latin America/US Hispanic for Sony Pictures Television (SPT), it was announced today by Kees Abrahams, president, production, SPT. In this role, Cunningham will oversee the company's production business in the region, including SPT's interests in production companies Teleset in Colombia and Floresta Productions in Brazil.

"Donna is a seasoned global television executive who understands our business from the ground up and has a proven track record working with talent and broadcasters," said Abrahams. "She brings the experience needed to grow our dynamic production businesses in the region to the next level, and her background working closely with our production companies across the world gives us the opportunity to consider new approaches to the business in the region."

Cunningham most recently served as executive vice president, operations, international production, where she headed global operations, strategic planning, and business affairs for SPT's international production group.

Cunningham joined SPT in 2004 as senior vice president, business affairs, international production. Previously, she served as general counsel and chief privacy officer for Radical Communication, Inc. a software licensing company in Marina Del Rey, California; as general counsel and executive vice president, business and legal affairs for Fox Family Worldwide in Los Angeles; as vice president, business and legal affairs, at Hanna-Barbera, Inc.; and as vice president, business and legal affairs at DIC Entertainment, Inc. Additionally, she worked at several law firms in the Los Angeles area including, McCambridge, Deixler, Marmaro & Goldberg, Swerdlow & Florence and Parkinson, Wolf, Lazar & Leo.

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Sony Pictures Television is one of the television industry's leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, including series, telefilms, theatrical releases and family entertainment around the world and for every platform: broadcast and cable television, first-run and off-network syndication and digital distribution. In addition to one of the industry's largest libraries of feature films and television shows, SPT boasts a current program slate that includes the top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas, comedies and telefilms. Internationally, SPT is a leader in local language productions around the world, some of which are co-produced with local partners, and sells SPE-owned formats in approximately 70 countries. To better serve its clients and partners worldwide, SPT maintains offices throughout the world, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Venezuela and the United Kingdom. SPT's worldwide television networks portfolio is a key strategy in SPE's long-range commitment to the global marketplace, with 132 channel feeds, which are available in more than 142 countries reaching more than 500 million households worldwide. SPT also creates original content for and manages SPE's premium video website, Crackle. Additionally, SPT owns Dutch entertainment company 2waytraffic, production company Embassy Row and Sony Movie Channel, and is a part owner of cable channel GSN, new 3D channel 3net, FEARnet, the premier horror/thriller website and VOD service, and national media sales company ITN Networks, Inc. SPT advertiser sales is one of the premiere national advertising sales companies, handling the commercial inventory in SPT's syndicated series as well as in all of SPE's digital businesses in the United States. SPT (www.sonypicturestelevision.com) is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company.