Richard Buchanan,
Vice President and General Manager of Content Services

Richard Buchanan is Vice President and General Manager of Content Services and West Works Studios at the Comcast Media Center (CMC) a Business unit of Comcast Cable. In this role, Buchanan oversees the CMC’s services and commercial business for traditional and new media, including its linear and live-event television origination business and emerging services, such as VOD and store and forward operations. The CMC’s Ad Distribution Network (ADN), West Works Studios Production and Post Production unit, Channel Origination Live Events, Occasional Transmission and Broadcast Engineering, also report to Buchanan. Major clients of Content Services include iN Demand, PAC-12 Networks and the NHL Network. Content Services also originates the Xfinity 3D channel and Comcast Sports South.

Prior to joining the CMC’s executive management team, Buchanan, a 30-year veteran in video production, management and distribution for the entertainment and enterprise markets, had served as Chief Operating Officer for Ascent Media Management Services (AMMS). Before joining AMMS in 2005, he spent nine years as Senior Vice President of Operations and Business Development for Crown Media International, which owned and operated the Hallmark Channel. Prior to joining Crown Media in 1996, Buchanan served as the Vice President of Production and Creative Services at Encore Media, where he helped to launch Starz! and seven thematic multiplex channels. Over the last 15 years, he has launched a total of 50 channels worldwide.

Buchanan’s industry positions prior to joining Encore include holding COO, general manager and production posts with HSN Telemation, from 1988 to1993, and serving as producer/director for Media Works of Virginia, from 1984 to 1988. He entered the industry in 1976, as operations manager for Star Television, a MMDS service that provided subscription television services in four US markets. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where he studied mass communication with a specialization in broadcasting, and Colorado State University’s process management program.

About Comcast Media Center
Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC), a subsidiary of Comcast Cable, provides centralized content management and distribution solutions f