- Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. He began his career at ABC, became President of Paramount Pictures in 1976, and then assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Co. in 1984. - Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation. - Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting. - Jeff Zucker
Jeff Zucker was named president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal in February 2007. With annual revenues of more than $16 billion, NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment content companies, with unparalleled expertise in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience across a variety of distribution platforms. - James Murdoch
James Murdoch is the CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and younger son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He was formerly an executive vice-president of News Corporation, the controlling shareholder of BSkyB, and served on the boards of directors of News Datacom and of News Corporation. With his wife Kathryn, née Hufschmid, he has two children. As a teenager James was regarded as the brightest of the Murdoch children, but was also considered something of a rebel. - Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. He resigned from his executive positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005. Subsequently, younger brother James Murdoch is now viewed as his father's heir-apparent. Their sister Elisabeth Murdoch, an able businesswoman in her own right, is married to publicity wizard Matthew Freud. - Tom Freston
Thomas E. Freston (born 22 November 1945) is an American television executive who most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the post-split Viacom, until his resignation on September 5, 2006. Freston began his career in the field of advertising, but later moved to New Delhi, where he ran a textile and clothing business for eight years. - Leslie Moonves
Leslie Moonves (born December 23, 1948 in New York City) is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation. Moonves served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005. Prior to this he was President of CBS Entertainment from 1995 and President of Warner Bros. Television from 1993, where he green-lit the hit shows "Wings" and "Survivor". - Robert Iger
Robert A. "Bob" Iger (born February 10 1951) is head of the Walt Disney Company. He has been president since January 2000 and CEO since October 2005. - Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun (born 1959) has been a creative force behind a number of successful television programs. His first major success came with producer David Chase for their idea for the show "The Sopranos". He went on to serve as the Chairman of the ABC Entertainment Group from 2002 to 2004. Braun was fired from his position at ABC for overseeing one of the least productive eras in the network's history (ABC had slipped to 4th behind NBC, CBS and FOX), … - Chase Carey
Chase Carey has served as a Director and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of DirecTV since December 22, 2003. - Michael Ovitz
Michael S. Ovitz (b. December 14 1946, Los Angeles, California) is a former talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse who served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in theater, film and television, Ovitz began his career at the William Morris Agency, but left with four other agents in 1975 to found Creative Artists Agency. While at CAA, he was responsible for pioneering the practice of "packaging" writers, … - David Asper
David Asper was born in 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. David Asper is a Canadian businessman and lawyer. He is currently the Executive Vice President of the Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications Corp. He is also Chairman of the National Post newspaper. Asper is the eldest son of the late Izzy Asper, founder of CanWest Global. He is the brother of Leonard Asper, current president of CanWest Global. - Steve Ross
Steve Ross (September 17, 1927 - December 20, 1992) was responsible for the 1990 merger of Warner Communications and Time Inc. into the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, Time Warner. Ross was born Steven Jay Rechnitz in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish immigrant parents. The family name was changed by Ross's father in 1932. Ross enlisted in the U.S. Navy in June 1945 and was discharged in 1946. - Kelvin MacKenzie
Kelvin MacKenzie (born October 22, 1946) is a British media executive and former newspaper editor. He is best remembered for being editor of "The Sun" newspaper between 1981 and 1993, an era in which the paper was firmly established as Britain's best selling tabloid. His period as "Sun" editor was also highly controversial - MacKenzie is remembered as the man responsible for the paper's "Gotcha" headline during the Falklands War, … - Arthur Siskind
Arthur Siskind (born 11 October 1938) has been an executive director of the News Corporation since 1991. He served as their group general counsel from March 1991 until December 2004 and has been the senior advisor to the chairman since January 2005. Siskind became an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center in 2005 and has been a member of the bar of the State of New York since 1962. - Gail Berman
Gail Berman (born August 17, 1956) is the former president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company and the former president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1978. With a college friend, Susan Rose,she co-produced the Broadway productions of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (1982), "Almost an Eagle" (1982), "Hurlyburly" (1984), "Blood Knot" (1985), and "The Nerd" (1987). - Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head a major studio. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. Her mother fled from Nazi Germany at age 17, and spoke no English when she arrived in the United States. Lansing attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and graduated in 1962. - Peter Guber
Howard Peter Guber (b. 2 March 1942 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American film producer and executive. One of Hollywood's most accomplished producers, Peter Guber was formerly the studio chief at Columbia Pictures and chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures. He is now chairman of Mandalay Entertainment, which he founded in 1995. The films he has produced -- including Midnight Express, The Color Purple, Rain Man, and Batman, … - Leonard J. Asper
Leonard Asper is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of CanWest Global Communications Corp., Canada's leading international media company. The Company's holdings include: Global Television - a national Canadian broadcasting network, several other independent television stations and cable channels and 13 major city daily newspapers in Canada, making it the country's largest publisher. - Dawn Steel
Dawn Steel was the first woman to run a major Hollywood film studio. She was born as Dawn Spielberg (no relation to Steven Spielberg) in New York City and raised in the suburb Great Neck, Long Island. Her father changed the family name. - Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts is Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, an American company providing cable, entertainment and communications products and services. He is the son of Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts. A graduate of Germantown Academy High School, Roberts received his B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. - Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 - August 27, 1997) was a popular NBC executive who was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as "Hill Street Blues", "L.A. Law", "ALF", "Family Ties", "The Cosby Show", "Cheers", "Miami Vice", "The Golden Girls", "Knight Rider", "The A-Team", "St. - Frank Shakespeare
Francis J. Shakespeare (b. April 9 1925 in New York City), American diplomat and media executive, was United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1986 - 1989. In 1946 Shakespeare graduated (B.S.) from Holy Cross College. He was president of CBS Television in New York from 1950 to 1969, when was appointed Director of the United States Information Agency and served there until 1973 also as director of Radio Free Europe. - Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman started out as a booking agent for the Music Corporation of America (MCA) under its founder Dr. Jules Stein. - William C. Marcil
William C. Marcil is a North Dakota businessman and a leader in the state's newspaper industry. Marcil was born in Rolette, North Dakota in 1936. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1958. He then married Jane Black, daughter of Norman Black, owner-publisher of "Fargo Forum" newspaper. In 1969, Marcil became the president and publisher of the "Forum". Today, Marcil is chief executive officer of Forum Communications, … - Adam Bly
Adam Bly (born 1981 in Montreal, Canada) is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Seed" and the Chairman/CEO of Seed Media Group. Bly was formerly the youngest guest researcher at the National Research Council of Canada where he studied cell adhesion and cancer. In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He lives in New York City. - Fay Vincent
Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr. (born May 29, 1938 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the 8th commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992. He is a graduate of The Hotchkiss School and Williams College, class of 1960, which he attended on a full academic scholarship, and Yale Law School, class of 1963. - Gail Asper
Gail Sheryl Asper (born 1960) is a director and corporate secretary of CanWest Global Communications Corp, president of the CanWest Global Foundation, and managing director and secretary of The Asper Foundation, the private charitable foundation spearheading the establishment of the $300 million Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of Izzy Asper, … - Rupert Keith Murdoch II
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into British and American media, and in recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, … - Lowell Selvin
Lowell Selvin (born April 15, 1959) is the chairman and CEO of PlanetOut Inc.. He oversaw the merger of PlanetOut Corp. and Online Partners, and acquisitions of LPI Media and RSVP (a travel company). Selvin graduated from the University of Illinois with bachelor's degrees in psychology and aeronautical and astronautical engineering. He later worked for Arbonne International and Arthur Andersen. - Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg (born 1935, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American entertainment executive. He is married to actress Lorraine Gary. Currently, he runs the Bubble Factory Studios, an independent production company of film projects. Prior to his work with The Bubble Factory, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at MCA under Lew Wasserman. Sheinberg is credited with discovering director Steven Spielberg, … - Allen Neuharth
Allen H. Neuharth (born March 22, 1924, Eureka, South Dakota) is an American businessman, author and columnist. He is the founder of USA Today. - Nicholas Coleridge
Nicholas Coleridge is the Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes "Glamour", "GQ", "House and Garden", "Vogue", "Tatler", and "Vanity Fair". He is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London during its most troubled period in the late 1980s. - Suzanne de Passe
Suzanne de Passe (born in 1948 in New York City, New York) is an American entertainment executive; the CEO of television production company de Passe Entertainment; and the first (and so far, only) African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing. De Passe first became notable as an executive for Motown Records, a company which she joined in 1968 after being introduced to Motown chief Berry Gordy by Supremes member Cindy Birdsong. - Alan F. Horn
Alan F. Horn is the President & COO of Warner Brothers Entertainment. Prior to Warner Bros., Horn served in various positions at 20th Century Fox and at Norman Lear's television production company, Tandem Productions. Horn sits on the board of directors of Univision. Horn, his wife, and two daughters currently reside in Bel-Air, California. They donated $25,000 to the DNC in 2004. - David Hatch
Sir David Hatch (7 May, 1939 - 13 June, 2007) was involved in production and management at BBC Radio, where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment (Radio), Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later Managing Director of BBC Radio. - Bill Kling
Bill Kling insists that Northfield's WCAL-FM, soon to become the 36th station under the Minnesota Public Radio umbrella, is the last one he intends to buy in Minnesota. But anyone who thinks that marks the limits of Kling's ambitions for Minnesota Public Radio, and public radio in general, hasn't been paying attention. - Carl E. Milliken
Carl Elias Milliken (July 13 1877 - May 1, 1961) was a U.S. Republican and Progressive Party politician and an early notable figure in the motion picture industry. A native of Pittsfield, Maine, Milliken graduated from Bates College in 1897. He went on to receive his masters degree from Harvard University in 1899, before moving to Island Falls, Maine to enter the lumber business. - Timothy Donahue
Tim Donahue was Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of Nextel Communications Inc. He began his career with Nextel in January 1996 as president and chief operating officer. On October 10, 2006, Mr. Donahue announced his retirement as Chairman of Sprint Nextel effective the end of the year 2006. Nextel experienced record setting financial results under Mr. Donahue's leadership, …
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