Freeze Frame -- May 22, 2017
At a Television Academy screening and Q&A for FX’s Fargo in North Hollywood, Calif. (l. to r.): Noah Hawley, executive producer; Ewan McGregor; and Warren Littlefield and John Cameron, executive producers.
With student musicians from the Norwalk (Conn.) Youth Symphony, which received a $4,000 donation from the “Altice Connects” initiative: Jennifer Young, Altice USA (back row, second from l.).; Sara Watkins, the symphony’s executive director (back row, far l.); and Connecticut Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (back row, far r.).
(From l.): Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler at the New York premiere of Bernie Madoff telefilm The Wizard of Lies.
Launching one2one Media at New York’s Troy (l. to r.): Jamie Power, chief operating officer, and Michael Bologna, president, one2one Media; and Nick Troiano, CEO, Cross MediaWorks.
At the Bleacher Report, CNN and Great Big Story NewFront in New York (l. to r.): Lenny Daniels, president, Turner Sports; David Levy, president and CEO, Turner; Dave Finocchio, GM, and Rory Brown, president, Bleacher Report; and Matt Hong, chief operating officer, Turner Sports.
Cutting the ribbon on the Univision Technology Center in San Jose, Calif. (l. to r.): Brent Wilkes, executive director, LULAC; U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.); Raúl Rodríguez, VP and GM, Univision Bay Area; San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo; Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, executive VP, government and corporate affairs, Univision Communications; former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed; and Univision Bay Area reporter Luz Peña.
(From l.): Asia Kate Dillon, Brian Koppelman, Maggie Siff, Paul Giamatti, David Levien, Toby Leonard Moore and David Costabile at Showtime’s panel discussion and reception for Billions at NYIT Auditorium in New York.
Snoop Dogg (l.) and Martha Stewart arrive for the 2017 MTV Movie and TV Awards Afterparty at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
(From l.): Rick Alessandri, EVP, enterprise development, Univision Communications; Univision on-air personalities Jackie Guerrido and Hristo Stoichkov; and Experience Kissimmee CEO DT Minich were joined by youth soccer players to announce that Kissimmee, Fla., would host the inaugural Prospects Cup youth-soccer tournament, to be televised by Univision Deportes Network.
Comcast Cable president Dave Watson (c.) helped build future “STEMgineers” one Lego at a time at Sarah J. Rawson Elementary School in Hartford, Conn. as part of the 16th annual Comcast Cares Day.
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Mike Demenchuk has served as content manager of Broadcasting+Cable and Multichannel News since 2016. After stints as reporter and editor at Adweek, The Bond Buyer and local papers in New Jersey, he joined the staff of Multichannel News in 1999 as assistant managing editor and has served as the cable trade publication's managing editor since 2005. He edits copy and writes headlines for both the print magazine and website, wrangles the occasional e-newsletter and reviews TV shows from time to time. He's also the guy to bother with your guest blog, Fates & Fortunes and Freeze Frame submissions.
