ANIMAL Planet announces the promotions of Andy Weissberg to Senior Vice President, Programming, and Erin Wanner to Vice President, Production. Both have played crucial roles in establishing ANIMAL Planet as a top-20 ad-supported network for men and the entertainment destination for viewers seeking a deeper connection to the wild world. Weissberg and Wanner continue to report to Rick Holzman, General Manager and Executive Vice President of ANIMAL Planet.
In his expanded role, Weissberg leads ANIMAL Planet's programming group, overseeing the network's long-range program planning and the daily content schedule while collaborating across multiple departments to maximize ANIMAL Planet's impact on multiple distribution platforms. Weissberg joined the network in 2009 as Vice President, Programming and Scheduling. His creative and operational strategy helped make the past three years the most-watched ever for ANIMAL Planet in both prime and total day across several key demos. Wanner now heads ANIMAL Planet's production team in New York and Silver Spring. As Vice President, Production, Wanner works with internal partners and external production companies to ensure the excellence of ANIMAL Planet's storytelling and execute the content vision for the network. In addition to overseeing the department, Wanner continues to serve as a key creative voice and executive producer for the network. Wanner joined ANIMAL Planet in February 2007 and has served as senior director of production since 2009, assisting with the management of network production staff while also executive producing more than 400 episodes of programming. Among her impressive roster of series and specials, Wanner produced hits including FATAL ATTRACTIONS, MONSTERS INSIDE ME, I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE, and the Emmy(R)-nominated SAVING AFRICA'S GIANTS WITH YAO MING.Videos