Sagansky Founds Phenomena

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Jeff Sagansky, former president of CBS Entertainment and former CEO of Pax TV, is venturing into the publishing world, launching this month a bimonthly magazine entitled Phenomena
that explores the unexplained.

Published by Mania Entertainment LLC, the publication examines such topics as near-death experiences, sites with mystical histories, UFO sightings, ghosts and so on.

Simon Cox, former editor of CD-ROM magazine Duat
, is editor in chief. The magazine’s first issue is on newsstands now, and the next issue will be out in December.

Paige Albiniak
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.