• by Wayne Friedman , April 9, 2009

Niche art and cultural cable channel Ovation TV has named veteran Liz Janneman to senior vp of advertising sales.

Most recently, Janneman had been with Current TV, as president of advertising sales. Janneman has some two decades of experience with senior ad positions at The Weather Channel, Time Warner, Turner Entertainment and Saatchi & Saatchi.

One of her bigger assignments involved running ad sales efforts for TNT and TBS. During this time, annual revenues doubled to exceed $1 billion. Janneman started at Turner Broadcasting's CNN in 1989 and rose to senior vp of Turner Entertainment Networks in 1995.

She began her career on the media buying side, working as vp and associate buying director for Saatchi & Saatchi.

Ovation has a national footprint of over 30 million subscribers through carriage on cable and telco video distributors, as well as satellite carriers -- DirecTV and Dish Network.