McLoughlin To Head CTD Creative Affairs

Former Telepictures President Hilary Estey McLoughlin has joined CBS Television Distribution as president of creative affairs, CTD confirms. McLoughlin will oversee first-run syndication and program development.

She will report to Armando Nunez, president and CEO of CBS Global Distribution.

McLouglin over the summer resigned from Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros. where she had worked for 27 years on shows including Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell.

CBS Television Distribution is now developing daytime talk show Serch in partnership with Tribune Broadcasting for a January test run. CTD and Tribune together launched this season’s latenight show Arsenio Hall.