FREEZE FRAME -- SEPT. 1, 2014
Former NFL star Terrell Owens (l.), fresh off his cameo role in UP TV’s original movie My Dad’s a Soccer Mom, visited UP president and CEO Charley Humbard at the UP/Aspire offices in Atlanta.
The Weather Channel on-screen meteorologist Jim Cantore (l.) visited U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) on Capitol Hill to film PSAs on behalf of the network’s “Connect With Weather” campaign.
At the eighth annual “Descarga con Telemundo y mun2” concert event at Chicago’s RiverEdge Park (l. to r.): Sarahi Mejia, manager, marketing, mun2; Sergio “DJ Sheeqo Beat” Zavale and Alberto “DJ Otto” Presenda of 3 Ball MTY; and Joanna Popper, VP, marketing, Telemundo.
Nat Geo Wild stars and execs took a side trip to the Grand Canyon while at a media event in Las Vegas (l. to r.): Greg Wittstock, Pond Stars; Zeb Hogan, Monster Fish; Diane Pol, The Incredible Dr. Pol; Geoff Daniels, EVP/GM, Nat Geo Wild; Dr. Jan Pol, The Incredible Dr. Pol; and Boone Smith, Big Cat Tracker.
Alessandra Otero-Reiss, VP of customer relationship marketing, Time Warner Cable, with a bottle of wine sent by Eclipse Marketing Services to celebrate a fifth consecutive first-place NAMIC Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Award for the TWC edition of Nexos Latinos magazine.
At Telemundo’s Premios Tu Mundo awards at American Airlines Arena in Miami (l. to r.): Luis Silberwasser, Telemundo president; Ricky Warman, CEO, Papa Johns; Maria Celeste Arraras, anchor, Noticias Telemundo; Joseph Carvajal, director of marketing Papa Johns; and Jose Diaz Balart, anchor, Noticias Telemundo and MSNBC.
Homeland star Claire Danes (l.), Showtime Networks chairman and CEO Matt Blank and Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber at Showtime’s 2014 Emmy Eve at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles.
Matt LeBlanc (l.) of Episodes and Lizzy Caplan of Masters of Sex at Showtime’s Emmy Eve Party at Los Angeles’s Sunset Tower Hotel.
Padma Laskhmi of Bravo’s Top Chef at NBC’s Emmy Party at BOA Steakhouse in West Hollywood, Calif
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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.