50 Most Influential: Melinda Witmer

Executive Vice President & Chief Video and Content Officer

Time Warner Cable

CHANGE FROM 2012: -3

In years past, Witmer has made this list in her role as a gatekeeper, holding the purse strings for the sports channels that get carriage on the country’s second-biggest cable operator. She’s on this year because of her industry-changing deals with the Lakers and Dodgers.