Harvest L. Smith

Harvest Smith, former Vice President of Affiliate Field Sales, Western Region for NBC Universal Cable based in Burbank, California. His responsibilities included increasing the network carriage for (NBCU) Cable's family of networks: (MSNBC, CNBC, CNBC World, NBC Weather Plus, ShopNBC, Telemundo Puerto Rico, Bravo, Oxygen, Telemundo, mun2, USA, SCI FI, Sleuth, Chiller, Universal HD) and the Olympics on cable across fifteen states, including Canada. Smith reported to Mary Murano, Executive Vice President, Affiliate Field Sales for NBC Universal TV Networks Distribution. Prior to serving as Vice President, Smith was Regional Director of Affiliate Relations for the Western Region for Universal before the merger in 2004. Smith began working with Universal in 1998 as a Regional Manager of Affiliate Relations in California where he increased local ad insertion and successfully increased network carriage across all networks by a combined 2,000,000 subscribers. In 1996, Smith was the Affilia