Veteran TV network PR exec Mark Kern has tuned in to Crown Media Family Networks to oversee corporate communications and program publicity.
Crown Media includes the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries networks, as well as web properties.
Kern was previously SVP of communications for the Hallmark Channel during two previous stints, from 2009-10 and 1998-2002. He later moved to Discovery Communications in a SVP of corporate comms. and publicity role.
Earlier he was a corporate comms. VP for Fox Broadcasting Company.
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