Freeze Frame -- Aug. 29, 2016

INSP and Comcast held a community event to back the network’s launch on Xfinity in Brentwood, Calif. (l. to r.): Carolyn Casmer Singh, Brentwood store manager, Comcast; Tina Sandoval, Comcast Brentwood; Kimberly O’Meara, affiliate marketing manager, INSP; and Christine Rodocker, VP, affiliate marketing, INSP.

(From l.): Actors Paul F. Tompkins, Janie Haddad and Erin Gibson at the premiere screening event for truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything at The Redbury Hotel in Hollywood.

(From l.): At the Hollywood premiere screening event for truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything (l. to r.): Executive producers Jon Wolf, John Cohen and Sam Reich; creator and host Adam Conover; executive producer Spencer Griffin; and Chris Linn, president and head of programming, truTV.

At Crackle’s West Hollywood, Calif., premiere of StartUp (l. to r.): Eric Berger, EVP and GM, and John Orlando, VP and head of development, Crackle; Ben Ketai, creator/writer/executive producer; and Andy Kaplan, president, Sony Pictures Television Worldwide Networks.
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