Karen Wishart, the Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for TV One, joined TV One in January 2005. In this position, she oversees the business and legal affairs department, as well as the human resources department for the company. Her responsibilities include the negotiation of agreements for all of the company’s business units, as well as corporate governance, risk assessment and strategic planning. In addition, she is the Secretary to the Board of Managers.

Wishart joined TV One from Scripps Networks, where she was Vice President of Business Affairs, serving as a lead negotiator of business agreements for the company’s domestic and international television and production units, including Home & Garden Television, Food Network, DIY-Do It Yourself Network, Fine Living, Shop At Home Network, and Scripps Productions.

Before joining Scripps as a Director in 1997, Wishart spent the first five years of her career as an Associate Lawyer in the entertainment and administrative law division of Cassels Brock & Blackwell in Toronto, Canada. In 1994, she joined YTV, Canada, Inc. & GRC Productions as a Director in the business and regulatory affairs department.

Wishart graduated from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with a B.A. degree in honors psychology. She earned a J.D. from the University of Windsor and a MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta.