Talent Manager Named Paramount Chief
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Viacom named Brad Grey, one of the most prominent talent managers in Hollywood, chairman and chief executive of its troubled Paramount Motion Picture Group.
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Paramount Studios, stung by a string of flops that include "Team America" and "Stepford Wives," is in the final stage of negotiations to appoint Hollywood dealmaker Brad Grey as its new chief executive, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Yahoo has hired former ABC television executive Lloyd Braun to head its media and entertainment division, the Web portal said Tuesday.
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Paul Otellini, currently president and COO, will replace outgoing chief Craig Barrett in May.
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England&#39;s Football Association appointed television boss Brian Barwick as its new chief executive late Thursday, three months after a sex scandal forced out his predecessor.
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Sherry Lansing, chairwoman of Viacom Inc.&#39;s Paramount Pictures film studio since 1992, will leave the unit when her contract expires at the end of next year, the company said.
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Mel Karmazin, the former second-in-command at American media conglomerate Viacom, was last night named as chief executive of Sirius, a company in the still fledgling satellite radio business.
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LOS ANGELES - On Sept. 1, former secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman replaced the legendary Jack Valenti as president and CEO of Hollywood&#39;s trade group, the Motion Picture Association of America.
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New York's Metropolitan Opera said on  Friday it appointed a senior executive of Sony Music as general  manager, one of the most powerful jobs in the arts and one that  had been tipped for renowned tenor Placido Domingo.
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SHERRY Lansing, the woman who broke into the cosy boys&#39; club of Hollywood to became one of Tinseltown&#39;s most influential players of either gender, is stepping down as chairwoman of Paramount Pictures.
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SEATTLE -- The Seattle SuperSonics hired Sam Presti as their general manager on Thursday.
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NBC Universal named Jeff Zucker as its  new chief executive on Tuesday, a widely expected move that  caps a fast rise to the top by the 41-year-old television  network executive.
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In his first major speech to Hollywood executives Dan Glickman, the new head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the industry must embrace new digital and Internet technologies while continuing to battle copyright pirates.
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Entertainment giant NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co. , will announce this week it is bringing in a new, younger chief executive to better compete in the digital age, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Sunday.
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NBC Universal hired one of the hottest young production talents in television, Ben Silverman, as a chairman of both its entertainment division and its television studio.
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The J. Paul Getty Trust said yesterday it had chosen James N. Wood as its new president and chief executive.
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The managing director of under-fire rail franchise First Great Western is moved to a new post.