{"id":2184889,"date":"2025-12-03T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2184889"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:47:29","slug":"former-paramount-streaming-executive-jeff-shultz-replaces-garson-foos-as-ceo-of-radial-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-paramount-streaming-executive-jeff-shultz-replaces-garson-foos-as-ceo-of-radial-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Paramount Streaming Executive Jeff Shultz Replaces Garson Foos as CEO of Radial Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-321849\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeff Shultz (Photo courtesy of Paramount)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-name\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/author\/tkmpneditor\/\" title=\"Posts by Thomas K. Arnold\" class=\"author url fn\" rel=\"author\">Thomas K. Arnold<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">December 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Shultz, a former top executive with Paramount+ and Pluto TV, is replacing Garson Foos as CEO of Radial Entertainment, effective Jan. 1, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The surprise announcement was made Dec. 2 by Oaktree Capital Management LP, the parent company of Radial Entertainment, the recently formed global entertainment company managing the FilmRise and Shout! Studios brands.<\/p>\n<p>Foos will join former FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher as executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came from Jared Frandle, managing director for Oaktree\u2019s Special Situations strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely grateful for all of Garson\u2019s efforts in guiding us through the seamless transition of this exciting merger,\u201d Frandle said. \u201cHis leadership from the very beginning of our partnership with Shout and through this pivotal period laid a strong foundation for Radial\u2019s future growth. We are now thrilled to welcome Jeff \u2014 a highly seasoned veteran of the streaming industry and a uniquely qualified media executive \u2014 to lead Radial into this next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shultz, who most recently served as Paramount Global\u2019s chief strategy and business development officer, was one of several high-profile executives to leave the media giant after its sale to Skydance Media. His departure was announced in an internal Oct. 15 memo.<\/p>\n<p>Shultz joined Paramount in 2019 through its acquisition of free ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV. As chief business officer of Pluto TV, he had guided the company from a nascent startup to a profitable, billion-dollar global FAST market leader.<\/p>\n<p>At Paramount, where he worked alongside fellow Pluto TV exec Tom Ryan, Shultz oversaw the company\u2019s global direct-to-consumer strategy and partnership portfolio during the launch of Paramount+ and the growth of global streaming revenue to more than $7.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Among his notable accomplishments while at Paramount was striking a deal with Delta Air Lines to give all Delta SkyMiles members free access to Wi-Fi and Paramount+ on Delta domestic flights. He also helped forge a partnership with Verizon+Play, which combined the Paramount+ with Showtime offering with Netflix, the first time two major streamers were offered in a bundle together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fortunate to inherit an exceptional team and the legacy of two highly successful brands,\u201d Shultz said in a statement. \u201cI am fully aligned with Garson, Danny and the Oaktree team on a shared vision to build Radial into one of the most valuable independent players in the global streaming market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Pluto TV and Paramount, I had a front-row seat to the rapid growth of Shout! and FilmRise. Now combined as Radial, the company is uniquely positioned to capture the massive opportunity in the rapidly evolving media market, leveraging its financial scale, vast and compelling catalog, and expansive and diversified distribution, all amplified by Oaktree\u2019s support. I am honored to lead Radial into this next chapter of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radial Entertainment was launched on July 1, 2025, with a diverse catalog of more than 70,000 movies and episodes, including major franchises such as \u201cUnsolved Mysteries,\u201d \u201cForensic Files,\u201d Hell\u2019s Kitchen,\u201d \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000\u201d and movies from the Open Road, Millennium and Sonar libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the company has continued to expand through a series of strategic moves.<\/p>\n<p>These include acquiring the Emmy-winning late-night talk show \u201cConan\u201d and the Emmy-nominated series \u201cHemlock Grove,\u201d securing two new true-crime co-production deals \u2014 \u201cMurder in Mind\u201d and \u201cPushed to Death\u201d \u2014 and launching the Hong Kong Fight Club FAST channel. 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The deal also includes digital distribution through Redbox On Demand. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mediaplaynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Shultz (Photo courtesy of Paramount) Thomas K. Arnold December 2, 2025 Jeff Shultz, a former top executive with Paramount+ and Pluto TV, is replacing Garson Foos as CEO of Radial Entertainment, effective Jan. 1, 2026.\u00a0 The surprise announcement was made Dec. 2 by Oaktree Capital Management LP, the parent company of Radial Entertainment, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2184890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[421284,341538,402020,421163,309230,345376,341384,421285],"class_list":["post-2184889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-danny-fisher","tag-filmrise","tag-garson-foos","tag-jeff-shultz","tag-paramount","tag-pluto-tv","tag-radial-entertainment","tag-shout"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Former-Paramount-Streaming-Executive-Jeff-Shultz-Replaces-Garson-Foos-as.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184891,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184889\/revisions\/2184891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}