1. ABC ELEVATES PROGRAM EXECUTIVE ABC named a longtime executive, Stu Bloomberg, chairman of its entertainment division. 2. After serving in the entertainment division of the Special Services during World War II, Saddler returned to Ballet Theater. 3. After weeks of complicated negotiations, ABC announced Thursday that it had hired Jamie Tarses, the former NBC programming executive, as president of its entertainment division. 4. But a quickie movie produced by its entertainment division is the only way Fox can profit from the Simpson story. 5. But it is widely expected that NBC will soon hire Garth Ancier to take over its entertainment division, and Ancier is coming over from WB. 6. But while the news divisions had reasons to howl with pride, the network entertainment divisions should have been howling with pain. 7. CBS Entertainment president Peter Tortorici resigned Wednesday in anticipation of the network naming Leslie Moonves to a new position in charge of the CBS entertainment division. 8. Disney executives recognize the problems and last month forced out Stu Bloomberg, a creative executive who was co-chairman of the entertainment division. 9. Even if some skepticism surrounds the space idea, skepticism about reality shows is not widespread inside the network entertainment divisions. 10. Granted it was in the entertainment division. |