Christian Martin (television executive)

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Christian Martin
Born1967
New York City
NationalityAmerican
OccupationTelevision executive
Known forVice President of Broadband Strategy and Development at A+E Networks


Christian Martin (born 1967) is a television executive. He is currently President of Marquee Media, a division of Marquee Brands, overseeing the Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse media fforts. He was the General Manager of SiriusXM video 2017 to 2019 as well as Vice President of Broadband Strategy and Development at A+E Networks from 2008 to 2016.

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He is married to Elizabeth Catherine Cole, [1] the Executive Producer of Dateline NBC. [2]

Early life

Christian was born in New York City in 1967. His mother, Nancy Fales Garrett [3] is a playwright and school teacher. His father, Jared Martin, [4] is an actor, photographer and past creative director of the Big Picture Alliance. [5] His paternal grandfather was Charles E. Martin, [6] The New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist. His maternal grandfather is the attorney Haliburton Fales II, [7] former President of The Morgan Library [8] in New York.

Education

He attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York. He went to college at University of Michigan where he received a BA in 1989 and then to New York University where he received an MA in 1993.

Career

Martin is currently the Preisent of Marquee Media overseeing streaming, podcasts, books, social media and distribution for Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse. In 2021 he signed a three year 234 episode deal to produce 78 shows a year for Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse as part of the Roku Channel's Roku Originals series (internet citation: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/roku-develop-original-series-martha-152309637.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADbeMUVJsxrNqgLgqY3geE0FE18pg9SNVLGU4709CY01LL8lGWjabN1Z-NzulCiKdlE__e_qJRDx4KVmbebfRbmkqPPpxH_P3JpIjDMJPNu2PpEbhMMxAJtI3nqO5LWbQhVAHpNLuTnY8egUYAdteg61dvVtwK4UVCYFvCF-55am). Martin is credited as an Executive Producer on the shows which were nominated for five daytime Emmys in 2022 (internet citation: https://theemmys.tv/daytime/50th-nominees-performer-non-drama/). Martin oversee's Martha Stewart's podcast on iHeart, runs her TikTok account and oversees all publishing for her deals with Penguin Random House as well as Harper Collins.

Martin was Vice President and General Manager of video for SiriusXM for two-years overseeing voideo for the Howard Stern Show.

Martin held the post of Vice President Broadband Strategy and Development for A+E Networks also known as Lifetime Networks from June 2008 till 2016. At A+E, Christian is responsible for all Broadband, loosely described as video, where he and his team created all of the Project Runway [9] video extras including the Tim Gunn's Workroom and the Project Runway Buzz Room [10] an aggregation of all the internet chatter around Project Runway.

He worked for NBC News, mostly for Dateline NBC, from 1993 till 2006. He has also covered the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 Olympics for NBC Sports  — he won Sports Emmys for his coverage of the 2000, 2002 [11] and 2004 [12] Olympics.

From 2003 to 2006 he was primarily Ann Curry's producer for NBC. Together they covered earthquakes in Pakistan, [13] the Tsunami in Sri Lanka, interviewed First Lady Laura Bush, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, [14] and the American hostage Thomas Hamill. [15]

In August, 2006 he moved to iVillage.com where he was Vice-President and the Executive Producer of Content, Programming and Integration. He held that post through May 2008.

He was featured in "Covering Catastrophy: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11." [16] Martin covering the event for NBC News bought a camera from a tourist on the street and recorded the collapse of the south tower while standing near its base . He was thrown by the blast, briefly losing consciousness and then made it uptown to the Today Show studios where he appeared with Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. He also appeared on Dateline NBC. [17] The video tape he shot appeared frequently in the weeks and months after the collapse. Oliver Stone licensed a snippet of that footage for his 2006 movie, World Trade Center, starring Nick Cage.

Martin was a panelist at New York University's The Journalism of 9-11-A Decade Later. [18] [19]

Martin was an eyewitness to Flight 1549 - the US Air plane the landed in the Hudson River. He appeared on the NBC Nightly News [20] and Dateline [21] that evening.

Martin published a short story called Abandonded Car for the on-line puiblication Mr. Beller's Neighborhood in August of 2021. (web citation: https://mrbellersneighborhood.com/author/christianmartin)

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