Schwartz Takes Top Post at Regency

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Regency Television tapped Robin Schwartz as its new president. She comes to the post from ABC Family, where she was VP of programming. Prior to that, she was an independent TV writer-producer, after producing for NBC for ten years.

Schwartz succeeds Peter Aronson, who is now the executive producer of Fox’s The Bernie MacShow, and Gail Berman, who is president of Fox Entertainment.

Regency Television is a boutique TV production company that is a joint venture of Fox Television Studios and New Regency Enterprises. It is has produced such shows as Malcolm in the Middle, Bernie Mac, John Doe and the upcoming Wonderfalls on Fox.

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.