Freeze Frame -- Oct. 17, 2016
(From l.): Matthew C. Blank, chairman, Showtime Networks Inc., Claire Danes and Dana Walden, chairman and CEO, Fox Television Group, at the Homeland panel at Paleyfest in New York.
At the Cable TV Pioneers’ 50th anniversary reception at the SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Philadelphia (l. to r.): members Dave Fellows, Pat Kehoe, Susan Bitter Smith, Frank Drendel and Les Read, executive director.
At Freeform’s New York Comic- Con cocktail event for Beyond at The Explorers’ Club (l. to r.): Nigel Cox Hagan, SVP, marketing, creative and branding, Tom Ascheim, president, and Karey Burke, EVP, programming and development, Freeform; Burkley Duffield; and Adam Nussdorf and Tim Kring, executive producers.
Mandy Moore (l.) and Zachary Levi are greeted by a visitor — a Walt Disney Imagineeringcreated Audio-Animatronics version of “Pascal,” Rapunzel’s pet chameleon — at a Burbank, Calif., recording session for Disney Channel’s Tangled: the Series.
At the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation’s “The Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts” event at New York’s Gotham Hall (l to r.): Paul Karpowicz, Meredith Corp.; Steve Kroft, CBS News; Tom Brokaw, NBC News; Susan Stamberg, NPR; Dick Ebersol, former NBC Sports chairman; Susan Lucci, actress; Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network; Perry Sook, Nexstar Broadcasting; and Tom Joyner, radio host.
Amber Nash (l.) and Lucky Yates on the New York Comic Con panel for FX’s Archer at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
(From l.): 2016 NCTA Foundation grant recipent Elizabeth Lindsey of Byte Back; David Pierce, executive director, NCTA Foundation; recipient Mark Bergel of A Wider Circle; Michael Powell, president and CEO, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association; and recipient Bryce Jacobs, Build Metro DC, at the grant presentation at NCTA headquarters in Washington.
At the New York launch event for Turner subscription streaming service FilmStruck (l. to r.): Jennifer Dorian, GM, FilmStruck and TCM; Charlie Tabesh, SVP, programming, FilmStruck and TCM; Coleman Breland president, Turner Content Distribution; Alicia Malone, FilmStruck host; and Jonathan Turell, CEO, and Peter Becker, president, Criterion Collection.
At the One Day Immersion in TV, Cable & Digital entertainment conference at the SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Philadelphia, co-sponsored by Comcast, WICT Philadelphia and the SCTE Foundation (l. to r.): Jennifer Yohe-Wagner, Theresa Hennesy and Mark Hess, Comcast; Dolly Wolf, ODI; Martha Soehren, Comcast; and Tracey Kopper Hourin, Comcast/WICT Philadelphia.
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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.
