Fiss, Alexander promoted at Tonight

Tracie Fiss and Michael Alexander have been promoted to senior segment
producers of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, executive producer
Debbie Vickers said.

Fiss began her television career working on game shows, later transitioning
into casting. She was casting director for the first edition of MTV: Music
Television's The Real World and became a segment producer on Leno
in May 1992.

Alexander was a staff correspondent for People magazine in Los Angeles
in 1987, where he worked until 1992. In April of that year, he came to
Leno as a segment producer, booking talent and preparing them for their
appearances.

The Tonight Show is from Big Dog Productions in association with NBC
Studios.

Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.