Marianne Romano Promoted to Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group

Marianne Romano Promoted to Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group

NEW YORK, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Marianne Romano has been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group. The announcement was made today by Dan Martinsen, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group, to whom she will continue to report.

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Ms. Romano, who first joined Nickelodeon in 1998, will continue to be based at Nickelodeon's West Coast offices in Santa Monica and Burbank, CA. In her new position, Ms. Romano will continue to oversee all West Coast-based TV production communications efforts for Nickelodeon and the MTVN Kids and Family Group. She will also expand her responsibilities to include overseeing the communications strategies for Nickelodeon's West Coast-based digital businesses, including Neopets; West Coast-based community and industry affairs initiatives; overseeing and executing press strategies for the Nick Movies feature film division; and overseeing West Coast-based communications and corporate relations for senior executives.

Since joining Nickelodeon in 1998 as Director, Communications, West Coast, she has successfully led the network's publicity efforts for some of the most popular programming in kids television history, from Rugrats, SpongeBob SquarePants, Jimmy Neutron and The Fairly OddParents, to live action series hits All That!, The Amanda Show, Zoey 101, Drake and Josh and Romeo!, as well as Nickelodeon's major TV events, such as the annual Kids' Choice Awards. She has also been Nickelodeon lead communications representative on corporate and industry issues in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Nickelodeon Networks Diversity Council, participates in the MTVN Mentor program and is on the Board of Directors of Padres Contra El Cancer, a Southern California-based non-profit organization that supports families of Latino children with cancer.

A 20-year veteran of the publicity field, Ms. Romano broke into the industry at WNBC-TV in New York as a publicist. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and joined KNBC-TV as a media representative before joining NBC Entertainment as Manager, Electronic Publicity and Talent Relations. At NBC, Ms. Romano oversaw all aspects of broadcast publicity and talent relations for NBC Movies, specials and series, including Frasier, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Mad About You and Sisters. She was promoted to Director, Publicity for NBC Studios and remained in that position before joining Nickelodeon.

Ms. Romano was raised in East Brunswick, NJ, and graduated from Douglass College with a B.A. degree in Communications. She and her husband, Tom Cavanaugh, live in Sherman Oaks, CA.

About Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon, currently in its 27th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in 90 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for eleven consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B).

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