{"id":303989,"date":"2025-10-15T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:30:11","slug":"up-entertainment-charles-humbard-exiting-as-ceo-of-cable-network-parent-he-founded-in-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303989\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Entertainment Charles Humbard Exiting As CEO Of Cable Network Parent He Founded In 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/charles-humbard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charles-humbard\" data-tag=\"charles-humbard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Humbard<\/a>, who founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gospel-music-channel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gospel-music-channel\" data-tag=\"gospel-music-channel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Music Channel<\/a> in 2004 and led its evolution into the media company <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/up-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_up-entertainment\" data-tag=\"up-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Up Entertainment<\/a>, is stepping down as CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUp, a supplier of family-friendly and uplifting programming on linear networks like UPtv and AspireTV and subscription streamer UP Faith &amp; Family, will now be run by company veterans Philip Manwaring and Reta Peery. Manwaring, who had been CFO, CTO and head of streaming, has been named CEO; Peery, who has served as chief administrative and operations officer and general counsel, has been named president and COO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHumbard, son of the pioneering televangelist Rev. Rex Humbard, was previously a senior executive at Discovery and Turner and has worked in the media in various roles for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe company is poised for continued growth, having just completed two of its highest revenue and profit years in the company\u2019s history,\u201d Humbard said in a statement. \u201cI am so confident in the leadership of Philip and Reta to take our business into the future. Having led our key business areas for over 10 years, nobody knows our brands and how to successfully execute our strategy better than they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Up networks came to market in the 2000s, when pay-TV was still dominant. As cord-cutting began shrinking the pay bundle a decade later, the company branched into FAST channels and streaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tManwaring called Humbard \u201ca true visionary\u201d who has inspired viewers with \u201cpowerful storytelling.\u201d Peery saluted Humbard for building a company \u201crooted in purpose, collaboration and heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn announcement of the leadership change said additional promotions would be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Humbard, who founded the Gospel Music Channel in 2004 and led its evolution into the media company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37376,154281,171,154282,173,67,132,154283,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-303989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cable-tv","9":"tag-charles-humbard","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gospel-music-channel","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-up-entertainment","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115375362787777701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}