Cabin Editing Company is expanding to New York with a new office led by managing partner Maggie Meade. The East Coast launch follows a period of growth for the company, as remote capabilities enabled Cabin to reach new clients across the U.S. and internationally.
“Cabin has seen sustained momentum in recent years and it felt like the right time to officially establish a physical presence on the East Coast–and I knew that Maggie would be the perfect person to lead it,” said Carr Schilling, managing partner at Cabin Los Angeles. “Maggie brings an established track record of success and of being a pioneer–always one of the first in the industry to try a new way of doing things. She has an incredible depth of knowledge of the industry from both the agency and production sides.”
Meade is an accomplished advertising industry veteran. She co-founded the hybrid production studio Sibling Rivalry in 2011 with Joe Wright and Mikon van Gastel, and oversaw sales and operations for the company for almost a decade. The studio brought together directors, producers, animators, designers, writers, and strategists to create content for consumer brands and television networks alike. Previously she led the in-house design agency at RadicalMedia from 2007-2012. Earlier she was one of the original employees of Droga5, where she served as the agency’s first director of creative innovation and produced various award-winning projects including UNICEF’s “Tap Project,” which earned a Titanium Lion at Cannes.
“I’ve known Carr for many years and we’ve always been totally aligned on how we see the industry and what we want it to become in the future,” shared Meade. “My career trajectory has always been to do something a little different with each new opportunity, and the chance to run a postproduction company was really exciting–especially with Cabin’s strength and breadth of work.”
Cabin will continue to be repped by Hunky Dory on the East Coast, Red Rep on the West Coast, and Baer Brown in the Midwest.
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN's slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC's telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV's pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV's 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL's opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV's service.
Financial details of Disney's new deal with DirecTV weren't disclosed as part of Saturday's announcement. DirecTV's payments to Disney will be based on "market-based" pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney's video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN's forthcoming direct-to-consumer... Read More