WB technical ops ups Antonellis, Dages
New exec VPs to o'see distrib'n, emerging technology
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In his new position, Dages will be responsible for locating, identifying, evaluating and implementing new strategic technologies that may impact Warner Bros. Entertainment's television, online, interactive and wireless businesses.
Dages also manages the technological aspects of the studio's entry into the massive multiplayer-games arena with the upcoming launch of "The Matrix Online."
Antonellis will oversee technical strategic planning and implementation related to next-generation content distribution covering a variety of digital distrib technologies, including digital cinema and companywide media asset management initiatives.
Dages and Antonellis report to Chris Cookson, prexy of Warner Bros. Technical Operations.
"More changes have taken place in the technologies that affect the production and distribution of entertainment product in the past decade than in the entire history of the business, which is why it is imperative that we have executives of Darcy's and Chuck's caliber playing major roles in our operation," Cookson said. "They've both made invaluable contributions to the company during their tenure, and we'll continue to look to them for their expertise and leadership."
Antonellis most recently served as senior veep, distribution technologies and operations, for Warner Bros. Technical Operations. She joined Warner Bros. Technical Operations in 1998 as senior veep, operations.
Before Warners, Antonellis was veep, technical and Olympic operations, for CBS, where she was in charge of operations for the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. A vet of three Olympics, she last headed up operations and engineering for CBS Sports' coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
She also served as veep, technical operations, in New York and director of Washington operations for the CBS News bureau in Washington, D.C.
Dages previously was senior veep, emerging technologies, Warner Bros. corporate business development and strategy. He was a member of the team that created weblet the WB.
Before that, Dages was veep of engineering for CBS, where he designed the technical facilities of the Ed Sullivan Theater for "Late Night With David Letterman" and worked on the network's Winter Olympics broadcasts from Albertville, France, and Lillehammer, Norway. Dages also was veep, East Coast operations, and veep of development at CBS.
