{"id":371469,"date":"2026-01-15T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:20:09","slug":"janet-brown-exits-bbc-studios-as-global-content-sales-role-moves-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371469\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Brown exits BBC Studios as global content sales role moves to London"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Studios\u2019 president of global content sales, Janet Brown, is stepping down from the company later this year, Broadcast International has learned.<\/p>\n

Brown joined BBCS in 2022 from Gunpowder & Sky as president of content distribution for North America and Latin America, before being appointed to her most recent role in October 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She oversaw distribution around the world, centralising global operations and content investment, and reported into BBCS\u2019s then head of global media and streaming, Rebecca Glashow.<\/p>\n

\"Janet<\/p>\n

Glashow departed in September last year<\/a>, with her distribution and content sales remit coming under the purview of London-based Zai Bennett, BBCS Productions chief exec and chief creative officer.<\/p>\n

US-based Brown is now following suit and will depart in April, having helped to drive sales at BBCS to record levels<\/a>, putting the company back at the top of the Broadcast Distributor Survey last year with\u00a0an 11% year-on-year rise in distribution turnover to \u00a3402m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her exit comes amid a broader distribution rejig at BBCS, which has made the president of global content sales a London-based role.<\/p>\n

Brown has chosen not to relocate to the UK and is understood to instead be pursuing new opportunities, with\u00a0BBCS kicking off its search for a London-based replacement.<\/p>\n

The position will work more closely with Bennett, as well as genre managing directors and global production leads, overseeing all markets globally including the UK.<\/p>\n

All current BBCS content sales leadership roles and reporting lines remain unchanged.<\/p>\n

Bennett said:\u202f\u201cThis strategic change looks to the future and will support us building a truly unified content studio that combines world-class production with global sales excellence.<\/p>\n

\u201cJanet has made an indelible contribution to our business, we are deeply grateful for her leadership and commitment – and wish her every success in her next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Studios\u2019 president of global content sales, Janet Brown, is stepping down from the company later this year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-371469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}