U.S. HISPANIC
Industry veteran Billy Kimball is joining Fusion to lead programming
Maribel Ramos-Weiner| 9 de mayo de 2013
Billy Kimball, senior vice president and chief programming officer
Veteran executive Billy Kimball is joining the new network for Hispanics from ABC and Univision, Fusion, as senior vice president and chief programming officer. Hell be based in Miami. For more than 25 years Kimball has been a writer, producer and executive in television, radio, film, publishing and online media. He has won some of the most coveted awards in the business and has an exceptionally broad range of experience as both a creator of content and a manager of creative people and processes. He has produced or executive produced more than 400 hours of television, including Comedy Centrals Indecision 92 and nine annual Independent Spirit Awards shows. He launched The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn in 1999 for David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants company. From 2004 to 2007, Billy was the executive producer of The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio and Sundance Channel. He has written eight episodes of The Simpsons and co-wrote the influential documentary Waiting for Superman.
