CBC breaks record for longest title on a business card
The CBC’s Jane Angel has been promoted to manage the business and rights matters for the documentary and new factual-entertainment unit of CBC Television. A great opportunity for what sounds like an extremely qualified individual. Unfortunately for her, her business card is likely to be completely illegible, thanks to the enormous title she’ll be saddled with:
Director, Business, Rights and Content Management for News, Current Affairs and Newsworld (‘NCAN’), the Documentary Unit and Factual Entertainment Programming (‘NDF’).
Yowza. (How NDF became the acronyn for words that start with D-U-F-E-P is a mystery I’ll never know.)
In English, this means she’ll manage NDF’s business (including in-house productions and acquisitions). She will make sure that the rights and funding sources obtained by NDF are appropriate and “effectively exploited.”
Jane used to work at CBC as a manager in A&E Production Financing. Before accepting this new position, Jane was a senior member of A&E’s business team.
Before coming to work with the CBC, Jane was Director of Legal and Business Affairs at Paragon Entertainment and, before that, legal counsel at Greenlight Film & Television.
Anyway, Jane, congratulations.
Note: I’ve emailed Jane and asked if she’s willing to play “Five Questions for the Fresh Meat” — a new column for this blog I think you’ll like — let’s hope she’s up to the challenge! 
My source: All-staff internal email. See the comments about this.
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Obviously you haven’t dealt too much with US goverment employees. It is not uncommon for people lto have two sided business cards to accommodate all the information
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I’ll be intriqued to see how long that lasts!
My source: All-staff internal email.
Hm… doesn’t this go against your own policy of not being privy to non-public internal information?
… not that it’s not funny, or anything…
Hi Scott — thanks for the inquiry.
I make sure that I’m not privy to any information that the rest of staff isn’t. In this case, all staff found out about this the same time I did.
As for posting this on the blog, I’ve been told that announcements that are released to staff at the same time they are released to the public are fine to post on the blog. This would mostly be appointments like this one. We do get confidential information via internal email and that information won’t appear here until it’s made public.
I guess it just caught my eye that your source was identified as an “internal” email, instead of a press release, etc.
Good luck with the blog!
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