FREEZE FRAME -- OCT. 27, 2014
(From l.): Tracy St. Pierre, VP, communications, USA Network; Rick Hoffman, star, USA Network’s Suits; and Aaron Korsch, creator and showrunner, Suits, after a SAG/SAG Foundation screening of the series’ midseason finale at the Arclight in Hollywood.
Lifetime premiered its original movie Big Driver at New York’s Angelika Film Festival (l. to r.): Jeffrey Hayes, executive producer; Olympia Dukakis, star; Rob Sharenow, EVP and GM, Lifetime; Joan Jett and Maria Bello, stars; Mikael Salomon, director; and Richard Matheson, writer.
CTHRA honored its 2014 Excellence in HR Award recipients in Philadelphia (rear, l. to r.): Nicole Johnson, Caron Cone and Josephine Wong of Turner’s Global Technology & Operations Team, the 2014 Team Innovator of the Year. At front (l. to r.): Abby Pfeiffer, VP, CTHRA; Beth Biggs of Charter, the 2014 Aspiring Leader; Kerri St. Jean of Comcast; the 2014 Leadership Excellence award winner; and Sheryl Anderson, CTHRA president.
At the Chicago taping of UP TV’s Steve Harvey: Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success (l. to r.): Rushion McDonald, executive producer, Steve Harvey World Group; Lisa Fischer, EVP, ad sales, UP; Steve Harvey; Brad Siegel, vice chairman, UP; and Ed Gordon, TV and radio anchor.
(From l.): Debra Lee, BET chairman and CEO; Kevin Hart, co-creator and EP of The Real Husbands of Hollywood; and Maureen Riedy, CEO, The Paley Center for Media, at Paley’s “An Evening With BET Network’s Real Husbands of Hollywood” in Beverly Hills, Calif.
At Smithsonian Channel’s screening of Breath of Freedom, a documentary on black World War II veterans, with the Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. (l. to r.): Frank Smith, founder, African-American Civil War Museum; Clarence Davis, chairman, Baltimore City Veterans Commission, Maria Hoehn, history professor, Vassar College; Ron Armstead, chairman, Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust; David Royle, EVP, programming and production, Smithsonian; and Krewasky Salter, author, The Story of Black Military Offiicers 1861-1948.
At First Tee of Central Florida’s “Swing for the King” golf outing in Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Bay Hill, Fla., which funds an endowment for Orlando-area college students (l. to r.): Tom Lawrence, executive director, First Tee of Central Florida; Scott Walker, VP of the First Tee board and a Golf Channel on-air reporter; and Mike McCarley, president, Golf Channel.
Revealing the “Special Veterans Project,” a renovated home for military vets rehabbed by volunteers from DirecTV under the supervision of HGTV host Matt Blashaw in Inglewood, Calif. (l. to r.): James Clayton, EVP, corporate giving, Scripps Networks Interactive; Blashaw; Steven Peck, CEO, US VETS; Mike White, chairman and CEO, DirecTV; and Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. and Councilman Alex Padilla.
The Muppets visited Soapbox Stages in Burbank, Calif., to film a series of interstitials to air on Disney Junior on 2015. With them (top, l. to r.): Nancy Kanter, EVP, original programming and GM, Disney Junior; and Bill Barretta, director/Muppet performer.
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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.
