Ever since 20th Century Fox TV heads Dana Walden and Gary Newman took over Fox Broadcasting Co. in summer 2014 to become chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group, Fbc and 20th TV had been deepening their integration with a number of executives promoted to Ftg posts to oversee areas for both corporate siblings. That worked fine until Disney recently made a $71.3 million deal to acquire key Fox assets, leaving the two parts of Ftg on different sides of the new Disney-Fox divide — 20th TV will be moving to Disney while Fbc will remain part of the new “Fox”.
The move leaves top Ftg executives in no man’s land. The list includes Ftg Chief Marketing officer Shannon Ryan, Evp Casting Sharon Klein, CFO Robert Barron and Svp Brand Management & New Media Strategy Michael Gooch.
Like the Ftg leaders — Walden is heading to Disney for a high-level job while Newman is...
The move leaves top Ftg executives in no man’s land. The list includes Ftg Chief Marketing officer Shannon Ryan, Evp Casting Sharon Klein, CFO Robert Barron and Svp Brand Management & New Media Strategy Michael Gooch.
Like the Ftg leaders — Walden is heading to Disney for a high-level job while Newman is...
- 10/9/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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