SharkJumping

AOL announced today that they had hired Erik Flannigan to run Programming, managing AOL Music, AOL Radio, AOL TV and Moviefone, continuing to be based out of the LA office.  Erik was briefly a colleague at RealNetworks as we were acquired, but we previously knew each other from the Mr Showbiz days and he soon moved on to run programming at Disney's ultimately cancelled MovieBeam movie service.  He's a talented executive with true creative credentials and a skill for effectively motivating his teams - it's a great move for AOL, especially as Yahoo and MTV beef up their teams in those areas.  It's another example of Real's large and often successful alumni group.