Gough Wehrenberg joins WBTV

June 10, 2009 Gough Wehrenberg, who exited as the No. 2 executive at Universal Media Studios as part of an NBC executive shake-up in December, will run day-to-day operations of WBTV's comedy department, reporting to executive vp creative affairs Len Goldstein. Gough Wehrenberg, who starts Aug. 1, will fill a position that had been vacant since WBTV's previous head of comedy, senior vp Marianne Cracchiolo Mago, left the entertainment business in 2007. Gough Wehrenberg spent 13 years at NBC Entertainment and sister production company UMS, most recently as executive vp at UMS, where she oversaw comedy development and current programming for comedy and drama series until UMS merged with NBC in December.

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