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the 2004 Program
Partial List of Speakers and Moderators
Ellen Agress
Senior Vice President
News America Incorporated
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Larry Aidem
President & Chief Executive Officer
Sundance Channel
As Sundance Channel’s President and Chief Executive
Officer, Larry Aidem oversees the day-to-day operations
of the Channel. He reports to a Board comprised of representatives
of Sundance Channel’s three owners: Robert Redford,
Showtime Networks Inc., and Universal Studios. Aidem
joined the Channel in July of 1997 and has been in his
current position since January 1998.
Aidem has extensive experience domestically and abroad
in the development and operation of premium television
networks from a programming, sales, and marketing perspective.
Prior to his Sundance Channel appointment, Aidem served
as Executive Vice President, Business Development, for
Showtime Networks Inc. In that position, he was responsible
for the company’s U.S. and international channel
development strategies, as well as expanded efforts
to develop interactive and on-line applications for
Showtime’s networks and programming. He had previously
served as Senior Vice President, Brand Development,
Showtime Networks Inc.
Before arriving at Showtime Networks Inc. in July 1994,
Aidem was Vice President, International Operations for
Home Box Office (HBO). In that position, he was responsible
for developing business plans and overseeing the launches
of HBO and Time Warner joint ventures overseas, including
HBO Asia, HBO Hungary, HBO New Zealand and HBO Czech.
Aidem joined HBO in November 1982 and held numerous
positions at the network, among them Vice President,
Original Programming; Vice President, Area Marketing;
Director, Affiliate Marketing; and Manager, Regional
Marketing. Prior to HBO, Aidem worked for Time Inc.
as Manager, Time College Bureau. He began his career
as Promotion Coordinator for MCA/Universal Studios.
Aidem holds a B.A. in Communications and Political
Science from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from
the Harvard Business School. He is a native of Phoenix,
Arizona. Currently, Aidem resides in New York City with
his wife, Claire, and their daughter, Lily, and son,
Jeremy.
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Linda Bathgate
Senior Editor, Communications
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
Linda has been acquiring books and journals for LEA
since 1997. She is responsible for all areas of the
communication discipline, including mass communication
and media, journalism, broadcasting, public relations,
communication studies, and rhetoric. She acquires textbooks,
handbooks, edited volumes, scholarly monographs and
other academic resources for these markets, and she
has started up five new journals to serve the needs
of communication scholars. Linda has worked in acquisitions
for 12 years, and her publishing experience prior to
LEA includes John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and RIA Group
(an ITP company), at which she acquired books and journals
for professional and trade markets. She has a master
of science in publishing from Pace University and a
bachelor of arts in literature from the University of
California at San Diego.
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Stuart J. Beck
President
Granite Broadcasting Corp.
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P.J. Benarski
Editor
Broadcasting & Cable
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Porter Bibb
Managing Partner
Technology Partners
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Richard
Bressler
Sr. Vice President & CFO
Viacom Inc.
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Christopher Dixon
Former Managing Director, Communications Group
UBS Warburg
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Bill Griffeth
Co-Anchor
CNBC's "Power Lunch"
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Sue Herera
Co-Anchor
CNBC's "Business Center"
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Leo J. Hindery,
Jr.
Chairman & CEO
YES (Yankee Entertainment and Sports) Network
and
Author
"The Biggest Game of All: The Inside Strategies,
Tactics, and Temperaments that Make Great Deal Makers
Great"
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David
Lieberman
Columnist
USA Today
David Lieberman is the media business reporter and
columnist for the Money section of USA TODAY. He joined
the paper in December 1993 and since then has led its
coverage of all facets of the media business, including
such major deals as Disney-Capital Cities/ABC, Time
Warner-Turner Broadcasting, Westinghouse-CBS, Seagram-MCA,
and America Online-Time Warner.
Prior to joining USA TODAY, he covered television as
a reporter and editor for TV Guide. He came to the magazine
from Business Week where he was Media and Entertainment
Editor. His assignments included coverage of the Time-Warner
merger and the changes in network television business.
David spent three years covering business and the economy
for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, which he joined at
its launch as the country’s first hour-long nightly
newscast. He began his career in Connecticut where he
won awards for his editorial writing as a member of
the editorial board of The Hartford Courant and for
his investigative reporting at The Hartford Advocate.
In 2002 he won a Maxwell Media Award for excellence
in news coverage of the cable telecommunications industry.
In 1998 and 1999 TJFR Business News Reporter named him
to its “Blue Chip Newsroom” business journalism
all-star team. In 1996, he delivered the 30th Annual
Carlos McClatchy Memorial Lecture at Stanford University.
He has freelanced for the Media Studies Journal, The
New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, the
Washington Journalism Review, Media Critic, The New
Republic, and Worth Magazine. His essay on Hollywood
mergers appears in the book “Conglomerates and
the Media,” published by The New Press.
David earned M.A. degrees in American Culture and in
Journalism in 1978 at The University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor. He also received his B.A. (cum laude) in
1975 at Washington University in St. Louis, where he
majored in History and Political Science -and founded
a campus alternative newspaper.
David lives in New York City with his wife, daughter
and son.
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Susan Ness
Former Commissioner
FCC
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Jessica Reif
Cohen
Managing Director/Sr. Media & Entertainment Analyst
Merrill Lynch
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Barbara Rifkind
Barbara Rifkind Literary Agency
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Kirsten
D. Sandberg
Executive Editor
Harvard Business School Publishing
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Christopher
Sterling
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Michael J. Wolf
Director & Managing Partner, Media/Entertainment
McKinsey & Company
Michael Wolf is a leading consultant to the world's
top media and entertainment companies. He is a Director
and Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company's Global
Media & Entertainment Practice.
Mr. Wolf is a business strategist whose focus is on
helping senior management solve their most important
and complex business problems, which will define the
future of their companies and their industries. His
clients have included many of the top global media conglomerates
which are the leaders in such segments as: filmed entertainment,
broadcasting, music, cable television, magazines, home
video, newspapers, educational publishing, sports, interactive,
video games, on-line, DBS, theatrical, theme parks and
book publishing. He also advises companies in related
areas such as merchandising, direct marketing, themed
retail, toys and consumer electronics.
He is the author of The Entertainment Economy: How
Mega Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives (Random
House/Penguin). He has also written a number of articles
including: "The Pleasure Binge", WIRED, March
1999, " The Content World 2005," Brill's Content,
July, 1999, "Why TV Networks Are Still Worth Buying,"
The Wall Street Journal, September, 1999, "Convergence"
Forbes, August 2000, "The Triumph of Broadband,"
The Wall Street Journal, January, 2000, "In TV
Land, Bigger is Better, "The Wall Street Journal,
August 2000, "Media or Die", Worth, March
2001, "Here Comes Another Wave of Media Mergers,"
The Wall Street Journal, February 2002, "No Dark
Ages for the Media's Brightest Lights", The Wall
Street Journal, July 2002.
A graduate of Columbia University, Mr. Wolf lives in
New York with his wife and three children. He is a member
of the boards of P.E.N.C.I.L., The Educational Broadcasting
Corporation (WNET- New York's Public Television Station)
and The Volunteer Consulting Group.
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Tom Wolzien
Senior Media Analyst
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
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David Zaslav
President
NBC Cable
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