The WB TV President steps down ......
I don't what this means to shows not already renewed for next season, like Angel, hopefully it will be a good thing.
Since this is subscription I'll go ahead and post some of it here:
Jed Petrick, president and chief operating officer of The WB Television Network, will leave his posts in April, he said Tuesday.
"This decision has been made after too many sleepless nights and much soul searching," Petrick said in a prepared statement. "I have spent the last 17 years of a 25-year career working at small, aggressive start-up companies, and this past summer, after almost nine years at The WB, I began to contemplate what the next big thing in my business life could be. The business is going to continue changing dramatically over the next few years. I now have the freedom to decide how I play in it."
Petrick has been at The WB since 1994, when network founder Jamie Kellner brought him on as head of media sales.
He was promoted to president and COO Jan. 17, 2001, and, in that position, he is responsible for advertising sales, Kids' WB!, standards and practice and research. All of those departments will now report to The WB co-CEO Jordan Levin.
Petrick also oversaw network distribution, which includes affiliate relations and The WB 100+ Station Group, and those responsibilities will go to Garth Ancier, co-chairman of The WB.
January 07 2004
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"More than four years of executive stability at the top of Fox Broadcasting Co. came to an end Monday with the unexpected news that Sandy Grushow has resigned his post as Fox Television Entertainment Group chairman. Grushow, a Fox veteran who oversaw the entertainment operations of the broadcast network and the 20th Century Fox TV studio, will segue into a lucrative three-year production deal based at 20th for his newly formed Phase Two banner. Grushow's move comes a few months before the expiration of his employment contract with Fox. Sources said Grushow has had lengthy negotiations during the past few months with Peter Chernin, chairman of Fox Entertainment Group and president and chief operating officer of Fox parent News Corp., on renewing his executive contract. During the break for the Christmas and New Year's holidays, however, Grushow said he decided to exercise his pre-existing option to shift into an eight-figure production deal that was included in his last contract when he took over the network in late 1999. That option had to be triggered between Jan. 1 and May 31 of this year, a source said."
Oddjob | January 07, 05:41 CET
aapac | January 07, 10:09 CET
Simpleba | January 07, 10:31 CET
always hope :D
aapac | January 07, 10:39 CET
Maybe the Tokyo-pop theme for Teen Titans was too much for him...
bookrats | January 07, 20:44 CET
bookrat - how do you think they pay for Angel or how the show makes money or why high ratings during sweeps is so important. It's all about ad revenue. How much they can charge their advertisers if the cost of the show precludes them from making a profit or if something happens and advertisers pull out of a show there would not be any reason to bring the show back, ala like what almost happened last year between budget over runs and low ratings neither the WB or FOX made much of a profit on the show last year why do you think so many consessions were made to keep it on the air. So I would say this guy might have an impact on the show after all.
[ edited by RavenU on 2004-01-07 18:58 ]
RavenU | January 07, 20:58 CET
"The Fox Network...has tapped a new leader to take it into the future -- a woman of quirky creative sensibility who champions storytelling that often seems more art-house than mass-market."
And:
"I have an awesome task in front of me," Ms. Berman says, adding that she will not be abandoning Fox's mainstream mission. "Basically it is about balance. I think it is important to stretch the boundaries of creativity."
And further:
"It's not mass entertainment the way it used to be," says Susanne Daniels, president of her own production arm, and former WB president, where she heard Ms. Berman's original producer's pitch for "Buffy" -- she touted it, oddly, as a resurrection of a failed movie. Ms. Daniels is developing several shows for Ms. Berman at Fox.
Me again: if she could pitch a very flawed movie and help turn it into a brilliant regular series, maybe, just maybe, she could be convinced of the wisdom of bringing back a brilliant regular series that was sorrowfully cancelled.
Just sayin', is all.
Chris in Virginia | January 07, 21:06 CET
:)
RavenU | January 07, 23:01 CET
Chris in Virginia | January 07, 23:05 CET
Firefly Flanatic | January 07, 23:40 CET
Chris in Virginia | January 08, 02:31 CET