Dolores Gavin has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Development & Production at the Discovery Channel. She is based at Discovery Channel’s Silver Spring headquarters and reports to Clark Bunting, president and general manager for Discovery Channel. In her new position, Ms. Gavin oversees development and production strategy to deliver the highest quality non-fiction content for the flagship network. Since joining Discovery Channel in February 2010 as Senior Director of Development and Production and then Vice President of Development and Production, Ms. Gavin has spearheaded development on GOLD RUSH: ALASKA, Discovery’s highest rated new series premiere in more than five years as well as new hits SONS OF GUNS and FLYING WILD ALASKA.

Ms. Gavin previously was Vice President of Development and Programming at History Channel. In that role, she oversaw a team of programmers responsible for many of the network’s most successful series and specials. Gavin developed and supervised several hit series including Swamp People, Ax Men, Cities of the Underworld, and Ice Road Truckers, one of the highest rated series in network history. While at History she also developed History’s three highest rated specials of all time – 102 Minutes that Changed America (which garnered 5.2 million total viewers, and earned three Emmys® in September 2009), The Lost Book of Nostradamus, and Life After People. Ms. Gavin began her career at DreamWorks SKG in Los Angeles, where she worked as a Coordinator in the Feature Development Division as well as a Supervisor in DreamWorks’ Animation Division. Ms. Gavin is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and received a Graduate Certificate from The New School.