Kristin Dolan
Chief Executive Officer
2023 – Present
3 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Kristin Dolan became CEO of AMC Networks effective February 27, 2023, after founding and running 605, an audience-measurement and data-analytics firm she started in 2016, and after more than three decades in media roles at Cablevision spanning marketing, product management, and cable operations leadership. Her contract was extended through the end of 2028 in October 2025. Her board also extended her contract through 2028, signaling confidence in her turnaround.
Legacy
Dolan, the wife of AMC Networks chairman James Dolan and daughter-in-law of company founder Charles Dolan, took over after a brief and unstable prior CEO tenure, and has focused on stabilizing the company's streaming portfolio (AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK, and HIDIVE) alongside its legacy cable networks amid continued industry-wide cord-cutting pressure. She succeeded Christina Spade, whose CEO tenure lasted less than three months before an abrupt November 2022 exit, and inherited a company still absorbing the earlier 2021 departure of 26-year CEO Josh Sapan and interim CEO Matt Blank's brief stint in between.