Executive Vice President, Program Strategy and Multiplatform Programming
David Bernath is executive Vice President, Program Strategy and Multiplatform Programming, COMEDY CENTRAL, reporting to Michele Ganeless, President of the network. Bernath is based in the network's New York City office and was formerly Senior Vice President.
In this position, Bernath oversees COMEDY CENTRAL's program scheduling and acquisitions groups, in addition to managing the network's content across all digital platforms.
Bernath has negotiated several large, multi-platform deals for COMEDY CENTRAL with some of the biggest players in comedy, most recently spearheading the all-comedy channel's negotiations with Twentieth Television to secure the exclusive basic cable syndication rights to "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" that will see the critically-acclaimed FX series start its run on COMEDY CENTRAL in summer 2010. In addition, Bernath negotiated COMEDY CENTRAL's deal with 20th Century Fox TV resurrecting "Futurama" for 26 new episodes, acquired the off-net rights to the Emmy® Award-winning "30 Rock"; and signed a groundbreaking series/syndication deal with Gary Sanchez Productions (Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy) and Debmar-Mercury for an original sitcom that will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL in 2010.
Prior to joining COMEDY CENTRAL in 2004, Bernath was Vice President, Programming, at BBC America, responsible for programming and scheduling, including original production and acquisitions. He joined BBC AMERICA in 2002 from E! Entertainment Television where, as Vice President, Program Planning, he was responsible for all program planning and acquisition functions for both E! and the Style networks. He had been with E! since 1994.