Atlanta, Ga., USA - July 21, 2009, Atlanta, Ga., USA - Michael J. Kelly has been named president and chief executive officer of The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC).
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A Chicago native, Mr. Kelly is a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Kelly has nearly 30 years experience in media and since 2007 has served as an advisor to Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a media-focused private equity fund, identifying and assessing digital media investment opportunities. He also served on the board of several fast-growing digital media companies - Eyeblaster, Visible World and American Town Network - and as an advisor to the board of Contextweb. As president of AOL Media networks, a division of Time Warner, from 2004 to 2007, Mr. Kelly effected enormous change at AOL and in the industry by pioneering the media network strategy through a number of successful acquisitions such as Advertising.com and Third Screen Media. Previously, Kehelly served as president of global marketing at Time Warner, working with all of its companies to bring cross-platform marketing solutions to major advertisers. Mr. Kelly began his media career in 1980 at the Chicago Tribune. In 1983 he began a successful 17 years at Time Inc., first at Fortune magazine where he managed the Southeast and New York sales offices and then as part of the launch team of Entertainment Weekly, eventually becoming EW's publisher. Mr. Kelly was named Publisher of the Year twice during the four years he served in that role. A proven entrepreneur, in 2000 Mr. Kelly founded American Town Network, a locally focused and community-based digital platform, serving as CEO and bringing the company from concept to operating entity. Today, ATN is the largest "hyper-local" platform and was recently funded by Ide ■
Modified arctic air combined with a moisture-laden area of low pressure along the Gulf Coast will continue to allow for a broad area of winter weather impacts from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southeast today into early Saturday morning.