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Banijay Entertainment today confirms Cathy Payne will lead the combined distribution business of Banijay Rights and All3Media International. Payne will remain Chief Executive Officer of Banijay Rights, the name assigned to Banijay Entertainment\u2019s distribution business once combined. \u00a0The company also confirms that Louise Pedersen, CEO of All3Media International, has decided to step down following the completion of the merger.<\/p>\n
Jane Turton,\u00a0Deputy CEO of Banijay Entertainment<\/strong>\u00a0said: \u201cWorking with Louise has been a genuine\u00a0pleasure. I would like to say a huge thank you on behalf of everyone across the business\u00a0and wish her all the very best for the future. I very much look forward to working with Cathy as she\u00a0brings\u00a0the\u00a0All3Media International and Banijay Rights businesses together.\u00a0 Cathy is a hugely experienced and respected strategic leader in the world of rights exploitation, and it is an exciting time to be combining these two market leading companies and catalogues.\u201d<\/p>\n Cathy Payne, CEO, Banijay Rights <\/strong>said: \u201cAll3Media International has long been a beacon for brilliant formats, scripted titles, and premium English-language content that delivers for linear, streamers and new platforms and I look forward to bridging these worlds to bring our clients a first-class entertainment offering across all genres. While the IP of course sits at the heart of the combination, for me it\u2019s also about the people. In All3Media International and Banijay Rights, we have an exceptional breadth of talent and uniting them will deliver us quite possibly the strongest team in our space. While it will be some time until we are \u201cone\u201d, I am confident that we will be well-placed to continue delivering growth for the group at-large.\u201d<\/p>\n The integration process has only now begun, with further updates on the organisation of the distribution business and its team to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.banijay.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Banijay Entertainment today confirms Cathy Payne will lead the combined distribution business of Banijay Rights and All3Media International. Payne will remain Chief Executive Officer of Banijay Rights, the name assigned to Banijay Entertainment\u2019s distribution business once combined. \u00a0The company also confirms that Louise Pedersen, CEO of All3Media International, has decided to step down following the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2500162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[354899,492477,491394],"class_list":["post-2500161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-banijay-rights","tag-cathy-payne","tag-jane-turton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Banijay-Entertainment-Confirms-Cathy-Payne-to-Lead-Combined-Distribution-Business.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500161","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=2500161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500163,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500161\/revisions\/2500163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}