Schmooze | Aug. 12, 2019

At the ABC All-Star Party during the TCA Summer Press Tour at Soho House in Beverly Hills, Calif. (l. to r.): Dana Walden, chairman, Disney Television Studios & ABC Entertainment; Allison Tolman of the forthcoming ABC series Emergence; and Karey Burke, president, ABC Entertainment.

Jean Kiddoo (l.), chair of the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force, and John Lyons, assistant VP and director, broadcast communications, The Durst Organization, pull the switch on the repack of New York City’s television stations at 1 World Trade Center.

(From l.): Richard Guest, EVP and global business director, DDB Worldwide; Michael Kassan, chairman and CEO, MediaLInk; and Terence Kawaja, founder and CEO, Luma Parners at the Paley Media Council’s “Best of Cannes 2019” event in New York.

(From l.): WE tv president Marc Juris and EVP, development and original programming Lauren Gellert; hip hop artist Jermaine Dupri and eOne executive producer Mark Herwick at the Los Angeles premiere of Power, Influence and Hip Hop: The Remarkable Rise of So So Def. 

Already ready for the holidays at Crown Media Family Networks’ TCA Summer Press Tour party (l. to r.): Bill Abbott, president and CEO, and Michelle Vicary, EVP, programming and network publicity, Crown; Santa Claus; and John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting. 

Chuck Lorre, creator and executive producer of Bob Loves Abishola, talks with reporters during CBS’s TCA Summer Press Tour session at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.