Background
Zarghami was born in Abadan, Iran to an Iranian father, Gholam, and a Scottish mother, Catherine.
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Education
The family later moved to Canada and finally to Englewood, New Jersey, where she graduated in the class of 1980 from the Dwight-Englewood School, and has been a recipient of the school"s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Career
At Dwight-Englewood, she "played a lot of sports, Lacrosse mostly."
In 1980, Zarghami entered The University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont as an elementary education major, but later changed her major to English. She ultimately did not complete her degree, but was later awarded an honorary diploma by the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services in 2000. Zarghami traveled in Europe after leaving college, then returned to Burlington to work for Business Digest.
Zarghami joined as a scheduling clerk in 1985.
She moved up through the programming department and became the channel"s general manager in 1996, overseeing programming, scheduling, acquisitions, marketing and day-to-day management of the network. Zarghami was promoted to general manager and executive vice-president in 1997.
In 2004, the position of president of Television was created for Zarghami, where she oversaw production and development for the network, along with marketing, programming and creativity. After the resignation of Herb Scannell on January 5, 2006, Zarghami became president of the newly formed Kids & Family Group, which currently includes, NickNite, Nick Junior., TeenNick, Nicktoons, television Land, CMT, and CMT Pure Country.
Zarghami was named Women in Cable Telecommunications" Woman of the Year for 2006.
