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In an industry where seismic shifts occur on a daily basis, the Paley Center Media Council is both catalyst and neutral forum, facilitating discussions on pressing topics that span all areas of the industry, including technology, creative content, and journalism. [more]
Its global reach and extraordinary convening authority enable it to host a broad spectrum of gatherings—including Roundtable Breakfasts, Boardroom Luncheons, Dialogues, Panel Discussions, an Innovators Series, and other Special Events—at its distinctive locations in New York City and Los Angeles.
Founded in 2002, the Media Council assembles these gatherings for the benefit of its members—senior executives and key decision-makers in media companies and related industries, who are visionaries in their own right. Membership is limited and available by invitation only. To find out if you qualify for membership, call 212-621-6732. [close]
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Upcoming Events
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April Events
Sam Zell is the co-founder and chairman of Equity International. His investments span the finance, energy, transportation, communications, and real estate industries, and he maintains substantial interests in, and is the chairman of, five public companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In April 2007, Zell submitted a proposal to finance the sale of the Tribune Company to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Named to the Tribune board in May 2007, he will be appointed chairman upon close of the transaction. Zell is also the chairman of his private entrepreneurial investment firm, Equity Group Investments, which was the originator of three of the largest real estate investment trusts in the industry. He serves on the JPMorgan National Advisory Board; the Eurohypo International Advisory Board; the President?s Advisory Board at the University of Michigan; the Visitor?s Committee at the University of Michigan Law School; and, with the combined efforts of the University of Michigan Business School, he established the Zell/Lurie Entrepreneurial Center. A native Chicagoan, Zell is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School.
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Timothy J. Leiweke, recently selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the hundred most influential people in southern California, serves as president & CEO of AEG, a collection of companies owned or operated by the organization considered to be one of the world?s leading presenters of sports and entertainment programming. Now in his twelfth year with the organization, Tim and has acquired or merged more than fifty divisions and companies whose alliances create a global live entertainment organization capable of developing, producing, promoting, marketing and managing sports and entertainment programming in both facilities owned and operated by AEG such as STAPLES Center, Sprint Center, The Home Depot Center, and Prudential Center.
Under Leiweke?s direction, AEG Development is currently focused on the creation of several multi-faceted sports and entertainment districts worldwide including L.A. LIVE, a 4 million square foot / $2.5 billion sports and entertainment district adjacent to STAPLES Center.
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David Kenny is chairman and CEO of Digitas. Earlier this year when Publicis Groupe acquired Digitas, Kenny became a member of Publicis' executive committee, the P12, where he leads Publicis' overall digital and interactive strategy. Kenny has been CEO of the Internet marketing specialist since 1997. Digitas helps global brands develop, engage, and profit from their customers through digital relationships. Previously David was a partner, and eventually senior partner, of the global strategy consulting firm Bain & Company from 1991 to 1997. He was named to its Policy Committee in 1995 at the age of 33. Prior to his consulting career, David held marketing and strategy positions with General Motors Corporation. David holds a BS from the General Motors Institute (Kettering University) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a board member for Teach For America and a director of The Corporate Executive Board.
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Some of the world?s best-known music, film, and TV companies have experienced the leadership of veteran music and media business executive Roger Faxon, who most recently became chairman and sole CEO of EMI Music Publishing in April 2007, succeeding Marty Bandier. Faxon had previously served in a number of senior roles at the company, including president and COO of EMI Music Publishing, CFO and executive director of EMI Group, and EVP and CFO of EMI Music Publishing. Prior to entering the music business, he was based in London as COO of Sotheby?s North and South America and then as CEO of Sotheby?s Europe. Throughout the1980s, Faxon held several posts in the film and TV industries, including the role of EVP and COO of LUCASFILM Ltd, where he guided the company?s operational affairs?including the motion pictures Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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This panel, which is part of an ongoing series of forums on critical challenges and opportunities across the media landscape, will focus on the evolving roles product integration and product placement are playing in content. As traditional media companies adjust their business and advertising models and new technologies and platforms change the way content is consumed, developing new revenue streams is crucial. Branded entertainment has become a billion-dollar business over the last few years, and we?ll look to explore the risks and strategies of product integration.
Stuart Elliot, Advertising Columnist for The New York Times will moderate this Panel.
Confirmed Panelists include: Allison Tarrant, Senior Vice President, Integrated Sales & Marketing, The CW; Eric Schrier, Senior Vice President, Original Programming, FX; John Shea, Executive Vice President, Integrated Marketing & Brand Partnerships, MTV Networks; Justin Wilkes, Vice President, Media & Entertainment Radical Media; Peter Geary, EVP, BBDO; and Stephanie Savage, Executive Producer, Gossip Girl.
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Patrick Esser has been with Cox Communications for close to three decades. He started in 1979 as director of programming in Hampton Roads, VA and worked his way up the ranks to president, taking over the reigns from James Robbins in 2006 after the third-largest cable provider went private in two years earlier. Releasing financial results early this year after Esser?s first year on the job, Cox added 30,000 basic customers in 2006, ending the year with 5.4 million basic subscribers. Cox ended the year with more than 3.4 million bundled customers, a fifteen percent increase over 2005, and attributed much of the success to Cox?s triple-play bundle of voice, video, and data.
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May Events
With 24.1 million cable customers, 11 million high-speed Internet customers, and 2.1 million voice customers, Comcast Corporation is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment, and communications products and services. At its financial helm is EVP and Co-CFO Michael J. Angelakis, who is responsible for all of the company?s corporate development, internal and external reporting, taxation, and other financial administrative matters. Prior to joining Comcast in 2007, Angelakis served as managing director and as a member of the management and investment committees of Providence Equity Partners, one of the leading private equity firms investing in communications and media companies around the world. Before joining Providence Equity Partners in 1999, Angelakis was president and CEO of State Cable TV Corporation and Aurora Telecommunications LLC.
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As the driving force behind the successful rebranding of top cable networks TNT (?We Know Drama?) and TBS (?Very Funny?), Steve Koonin clearly has his finger on the pulse of the viewing public. During his tenure as president of Turner Entertainment Networks, Koonin has also ramped up the production of original series programming on the two networks, scoring big with The Closer (ad-supported cable?s highest-rated series of all time) and Saving Grace (ad-supported cable?s highest-rated series launch for the year-to-date). Additional hits include Tyler Perry?s House of Payne, The Bill Engvall Show, and My Boys. In October 2006, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Court TV (soon to become truTV) were added to Koonin?s portfolio. Prior to joining Turner Broadcasting, Koonin spent fourteen years at The Coca-Cola Company, serving as vice president of consumer marketing. In 1998, as vice president of Coca Cola?s sports and entertainment marketing division, he was named Sports Executive of the Year by Sports Business Journal.
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With an innovative vision for the transformation of television through the Internet, Jeremy Allaire founded Brightcove in 2004. As chairman and CEO, he heads up the company?s technology, marketing, and business development strategy. Prior to founding Brightcove, Allaire worked as a technologist and entrepreneur-in-residence for the venture capital firm General Catalyst. He was previously the chief technology officer of Macromedia, where his work contributed to the evolution of Macromedia Flash into a dominant platform for rich media applications on the Internet. Allaire joined Macromedia during its merger with Allaire Corporation?a pioneer in using the web as an application platform.
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June Events
An accomplished business executive and education advocate, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., current chairman of The Carlyle Group, has held a number of prominent positions over the course of his notable career?including his most recent tenure as chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002, where he is credited with the company?s successful transformation from a business in freefall to an industry leader. Previously, Gerstner served four years as chairman and COO of RJR Nabisco, Inc., and filled a number of executive roles at American Express Company, including president of the parent company and chairman and CEO of American Express Travel Related Services Company. Prior to that time, he was a director of McKinsey & Co., which he joined in 1965. Gerstner is a member of the advisory board of Sony Corporation and a director of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He also serves as vice chairman of the boards of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the American Museum of Natural History. Gerstner was awarded the designation of honorary Knight of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2001 for his accomplishments in the public education and business arenas. He is the author of Who Says Elephants Can?t Dance: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change, a memoir about his time at IBM.
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Media Council Series Sponsors
NY Roundtable Breakfasts: Booz Allen Hamilton
NY Boardroom Luncheons: BMO Capital Markets
LA Roundtable Breakfasts: McKinsey & Co.
Innovators: Accenture
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Journalism in the Service of Democracy Summit, Sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York
January 8-9, 2008
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Moderator: David Westin, President, ABC News
Participants:
Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Alberto Ibarguen, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Bill Keller, Executive Editor, The New York Times
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Moderator: Geoffrey Sands, Director & Leader, Global Media Entertainment, McKinsey & Co.
Participants:
Amanda Bennett, Executive Editor/Enterprise, Bloomberg News
Jim Kennedy, Vice President and Director of Strategic Planning, The Associated Press
Betsy Morgan, CEO, The Huffington Post
John Stack, Vice President, Newsgathering, Fox News
Jim Willse, Editor, The Star-Ledger
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Moderator: David Doss, Senior Executive Producer, Anderson Cooper 360
Participants:
Jon Alpert, Co-Founder and Co-Director, DCTV
Steve Grove, News & Politics Editor, YouTube
Christof Putzel, Correspondent/Producer, Vanguard Journalism, Current TV
Paul Steiger, President and Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica
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Recent Events
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The Innovators Series salutes those whose contributions have left an indelible mark on our world and helped redefine the media industry. Robert L. Johnson revolutionized the business when he founded Black Entertainment Television (BET), the nation?s first and leading television network providing quality entertainment, music, news, sports, and public affairs programming for the African-American audience. Under Johnson?s leadership as chairman, BET became the first African-American-owned company to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2000, he sold BET to Viacom for approximately $3 billion and remained the Chief Executive Officer through 2005. As owner of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA Franchise and the WNBA Charlotte Sting, Johnson was also the first African-American to become the majority owner of a professional sports organization when he was approved by the NBA Board of Governors in January 2003. Currently, Johnson serves as the founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies?an innovative business network that provides strategic investment and direction in and for a diverse portfolio of companies in the financial services, real estate, hospitality/restaurant, professional sports, film production, gaming, and recording industries.
Funding for this event provided by Accenture
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Harry Sloan was named to the post of chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) in October of 2005. He has invested in MGM to become part of the ownership group, which includes four private equity firms and two media companies. Mr. Sloan brings extensive leadership and investment experience in the media and entertainment industries. He has invested in and headed three media companies: SBS Broadcasting, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., and New World Entertainment. Most recently, he was executive chairman of SBS Broadcasting, a leading European media company, which he founded in 1990. After starting SBS in 1990, Mr. Sloan built the company into the second largest broadcaster in Europe with sixteen television stations, twenty-one premium pay channels and eleven radio networks, reaching 100 million people across Europe. He led the Company?s initial public offering in 1993. In 1999, SBS became the largest shareholder of Lions Gate Entertainment. Lions Gate has since become a premier independent producer and distributor of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, and video-on-demand content. Its film library is one of the largest in the industry. Mr. Sloan was chairman of the Board of Lions Gate until April 2005.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in Los Angeles provided by McKinsey & Co.
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MC Dialogue—Face Off: Finding Common Ground in Today's Sports Media Landscape
November 14, 2007
This Dialogue focused on how the traditional relationship between the sports and media industries is being redefined as new distribution platforms emerge, economic needs change, and consumer tastes shift. Issues ranging from rights fees and a la carte carriage to media access, media ownership of sports properties, and the impact of new technologies were explored with the ultimate goal of determining how sports and media can strengthen their partnership, where the biggest challenges lie, and what is needed from each side to move forward. Additionally, the discussion covered how the media has altered its coverage of sports stories, particularly those involving controversy, and whether media accurately reflects the attitudes and views of the public.
Participants included NBA Commissioner David Stern and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. Neal Pilson, president of Pilson Communications and former president of CBS Sports moderated.
Funding for this dialogue is generously provided by Bank of America.
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Magazine maven Cathie Black has been in the media industry for four decades and has broken many a glass ceiling ? as head of USA Today, the nation's first four-color daily newspaper, and as the first woman to become publisher of a weekly consumer magazine, New York. Currently, at Hearst she oversees nineteen US magazines that include juggernauts like Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Now, Black adds author to her lengthy list of accomplishments, releasing Basic Black in October that will reveal how she has balanced her incredible business success with personal contentment.
Funding for this event provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
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As president of New Corporation's Fox Interactive Media, Peter Levinsohn is responsible for driving vision and strategy for the division that includes such category leading sites as MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FOXSports.com, RottenTomatoes, AskMen, AmericanIdol.com, and more. Together, these sites make up one of the largest and most-engaged audiences in a border-free online network that caters to consumers by giving them the platform and tools to express themselves, communicate with each other, and engage with the best music, TV, film, sports, information and more. Prior to taking the helm at Fox Interactive Media, Levinsohn, an eighteen year veteran of News Crop, was the president of both Fox Digital Media for the Fox Entertainment Group as well as Worldwide Pay Television and Video-on-Demand for Fox Filmed Entertainment.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in Los Angeles provided by McKinsey & Co.
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Norm Pearlstine, former Time Inc. editor-in-chief and author of Off the Record: The Press, the Government and the War over Anonymous Sources, moderated this in-depth discussion looking at the relationship between the government and the media in wartime. Part two of a two-part series funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, this panel focused on the collision between investigative journalism, reporting methods and the government. Participants include Paul Steiger, editor-at-large and former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal; Robert Grenier, managing director, Kroll Inc. and a former CIA Counter-Terrorism Chief; Mary Louise Kelly, intelligence correspondent for National Public Radio; Adam Liptak, national legal correspondent for the New York Times; and James Goodale, founding partner, Debevoise & Plimpton.
Funding for this event provided by Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
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Highlights from Past Seasons
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Past Seasons
2006-2007 Season Archive
 Printable 2006-2007 Season Schedule
Printable 2005-2006 Season Schedule
MC Newsletter
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Issue 3, November 2007 New issue
Issue 2, July 2007
Issue 1, April 2007
International Council Meeting 2007
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