Noriko Kelley has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Program Planning & Scheduling, CBS Entertainment. She succeeds and will report to Kelly Kahl, who was recently named President of the Division. In this new position, Kelley's primary responsibility is overseeing the program planning and scheduling of all primetime programming for the CBS Television Network. She will also supervise coordination between CBS programming divisions and the Network's respective operations in sales, marketing, affiliate relations, news, sports and research, as well as with the CBS Television Station Group.
"I'm excited to promote Noriko to this critical position. I obviously value scheduling and understand its importance to CBS' overall success," said Kahl. "She has an outstanding skill set for this job - she's extremely intelligent, resourceful and insightful. Noriko is also one of the hardest-working execs I've had the pleasure of working with and will transition seamlessly and excel in this new role." Kelley has been Senior Vice President, Programming Planning & Scheduling since August 2012. Prior to that, she was Vice President, Program Planning & Scheduling since April 2010, playing a role in many of the Network's successful scheduling moves, including the relocation of television's number one comedy "The Big Bang Theory" to Thursday. Previously, she served as a Director in the department since May 2007. In that time, Kelley has also worked with The CW and will continue in that capacity.Videos