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2007 12 to Watch: Where Are They Now?
Peter Chernin The writers strike that loomed for months before becoming reality Nov. 5 was perhaps the most pressing new item of business to land on News Corp. President-Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin’s plate last year. Otherwise, 2007 was an…
12 to Watch: Lauren Zalaznick
Lauren Zalaznick, president of Bravo Media, decided to stay in town over the holidays. She was moving from one apartment to another and recently sold a weekend house. “We have two houses’ worth of contents that need to get organized…
12 to Watch: Andrea Wong
A little bit of success has new Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong turning up the competitive heat under the network’s staff for 2008. Shortly after Ms. Wong replaced Betty Cohen in April, Lifetime launched “Army Wives,” which proved to be the…
12 to Watch: Bill Tancer
There once was a time when we used to share our deepest secrets with our hairdresser. Now, we share those secrets with Google or Yahoo or MSN.com. We tell Google what we want, who we’re interested in, how we are…
12 to Watch: Michael Steib
In his inaugural year on the job at Google, Michael Steib launched the first major auction-based system for buying television spots and then guided a partnership between the world’s biggest search engine and the world’s most powerful TV ratings company….
12 to Watch: Ben Silverman
There are two moments that encapsulate Ben Silverman’s eight-month leadership of NBC. The first was the fabulously awkward Hollywood Radio & Television Society luncheon in October where the NBC co-chair joined the presidents of his network competitors on stage for…
12 to Watch: Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick
The television industry should consider March 2 at 9 p.m. as appointment viewing for all. That’s when the biggest test so far in Web-to-TV convergence will occur, as NBC premieres “Quarterlife,” a six-week midseason replacement that started on the Internet….