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The name may sound familiar, but rest assured there is no relation. This Melani Griffith (spelled without an “e”) does work in the entertainment business, however. As AMC Networks’ vice president/Eastern region, she directs the sales and affiliate marketing efforts…
Advertising & AgenciesRichard Pike to senior vice president and media director, InterMedia Advertising, from director, account and media services, Buckley Friedman Advertising.Tony Nethercutt to executive director, business development, Lot21, from director of advertising sales, Western U.S., Doubleclick.BroadcastingSteve Blechman to TV…
Jim Stroud has traveled an improbable journey to stardom.The former literature major at West Texas State University who once dreamed of becoming a Hollywood screenwriter is now living a story that no author could have scripted.Mr. Stroud, an analyst at…
Robert Port is living his childhood dream. Two of them, actually.As a kid, Mr. Port was fixated on cop shows and dreamed of directing movies. But if he couldn’t break into Hollywood, he thought he would crack the Central Intelligence…
Just months after Peter Roghaar arrived at NBC affiliate WPTV, West Palm Beach, Fla., the market became ground zero for the November 2000 election debacle.“Election Day itself was a 20-hour day. Afterward it was probably 14-hour days,” said Mr. Roghaar,…
In “Touchstone throws its weight around fall skeds” (EM, June 4), Gene Stein is partnered with Nina Wass in an exclusive production deal with the Disney-owned studio. Also, Touchstone is the sole production entity behind the fall 2001 sitcom “Scrubs”…
KCAL onboard for`Jules Verne’ seriesLos Angeles-Indie syndication player Promark has cleared the country’s second-largest market for upcoming weekly series “The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne” for the fall. With most of the country now cleared, the company has added KCAL-TV,…
Ramon Escobar was one of the station’s youngest news directors when he worked at NBC-owned WTVJ-TV, Miami. Since last year he has been MSNBC’s executive producer of live programming. At 32, Mr. Escobar finds himself becoming a role model for…
Interviewing teen-agers kissing in a nightclub in Mar del Plata, Argentina, isn’t the usual way programming executives gain their first bit of television experience. But that’s what worked for Emiliano Calemzuk, the 28-year-old vice president and general manager of Fox…
Station managers say Jackson is pacing 1 percent to 5 percent behind last year, with the automobile and telecommunications ad categories down. However, auto and telecom are still top ad categories, in addition to furniture.According to BIA Financial Network, Jackson…