Nicholas DeNinno creates content and specializes in building next generation media platforms to reach the 18-24 demographic.

DeNinno was recruited early in his career by Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Kids in the Hall) to build Burly TV, the first network designed to reach the college market. The programming also aired as a block of programming targeting the college market on TBS. 

In early 2006, DeNinno led big media companies in embracing online video when he launched Toga!, a broadband channel featuring award-winning website content from National Lampoon’s rich history of motion picture and television programming and successfully launched stand alone comedy channels on such platforms as AOL, Yahoo, TiVo, and Brightcove.

DeNinno also launched National Lampoon's College Channel, a college cable television network, building upon relationships with colleges and universities across the country.

DeNinno started his a career at Food Network working on Emeril Live and at Broadway Video Entertainment - Burly TV on such shows as Half Baked, National Rage Page, Overkill, The Sex Talk Show, The Tame Show and Burly Vision. At National Lampoon, DeNinno created and produced of hundreds of hours of original programming including Gamers, CollegeTown USA, Comedy Academy, and the highly-rated AV Squad.

• In 1999, DeNinno  co-founded Integrity Multimedia (Integrity Films) with the belief that films can be entertaining, educational and inspirational and should teach us something about ourselves and the world.

• DeNinno was an executive member of the National Association of College Broadcasters (NACB), the first trade association specifically geared to all aspects of American student-staffed radio and television stations. Among its notable successes were U-Net (later trademarked as U Network), a satellite-delivered programming network featuring top student productions.  

• DeNinno is affiliated with the National Association of Campus Activities and the Association of Higher Education Cable Television Administrators, as an advisor and as a programming resource to many universities who operate student-run cable television stations.

• DeNinno is a member of the Producers Guild, and was inducted into the Friars Club in 2011.

Recent News: Twenty-three years ago when he created MEATBALLS (1979), Ivan Reitman was just happy to be directing again. Nick DeNinno spoke to Ivan about his career, MEATBALLS on demand and the possibility of GHOSTBUSTERS 3.

http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/vod_spotlight_on_ivan_reitman_meatballs/