Meet the 'MCN' Women to Watch for 2020

The editors and publishers of Multichannel News have announced the 2020 Women to Watch, who will be celebrated with the 2020 Wonder Women (previously announced) at a gala luncheon Thursday, March 26, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York.

The luncheon, co-hosted by the New York chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications, is the centerpiece of NYC TV Week Spring. Other NYC TV Week Spring events include Advanced Advertising, the Next TV Summit and the CultureX breakfast.

Here are the 2020 Women to Watch:

Victoria Bieler, Head of Broadcast and Retrans, Verizon

Johnita Due, SVP and Chief Diversity Officer, WarnerMedia News and Sports, WarnerMedia

Libby Geist, Vice President & Executive Producer, ESPN Films and Original Content, ESPN

Diana Horowitz, Vice President, U.S. Sales East, Telestream

Audrey Lee, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Starz

Danielle Mullin, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Crown Media Family Networks

Lauren Petterson, President, Fox Business Network

Marcella Milliet Sciorra, Vice President, Ad Sales & Product Marketing, Spectrum Reach

Nancy Smith, President and CEO, Analytic Partners

Julie Sterling, Director of Media & Entertainment Partnerships, Google

Randi Stipes, Chief Marketing Officer, IBM Watson Media and Weather

Holly Tang, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Production Operations, Lifestyle Networks, NBCUniversal

Kent Gibbons

Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.