Freeze Frame | June 24, 2019
(From l.): Jim Gianopulos, chairman and CEO, Paramount Pictures; Bob Bakish, president and CEO, Viacom; and Maureen J. Riedy, president and CEO, Paley Center for Media; at a Paley Media Council event in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Suzi Barrett (l.) and Tobie Windham (second from l.) of Disney Channel’s Just Roll With It with members of the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem at a special screening of the series at ABC in New York.
Smithsonian Channel marked the moon landing’s 50th anniversary with an immersive event in honor of Apollo’s Moon Shot and The Day We Walked on the Moon (l. to r.): Charles Poe, Smithsonian Channel; Mark and Rick Armstrong, sons of Neil Armstrong; Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony, National Air & Space Museum; Mike Massimino, author and astronaut; David Royle and Tom Hayden, Smithsonian Networks; and Tim Evans, executive producer, Apollo’s Moon Shot.
Freeform president Tom Ascheim, Yara Shahidi, Francia Raisa and Freeform EVP, programming & development Lauren Corrao at a “college house party” For Your Consideration event for Grown-ish in Los Angeles.
At a blogger event premiering Disney Junior’s animated series T.O.T.S. (l. to r.): Joe D’Ambrosia, SVP, original programming and GM, Disney Junior; Megan Hilty, voice of “K.C. the Koala”; and Travis Braun, T.O.T.S. creator and co-executive producer.
ESPN celebrated the NBA Finals by turning New York’s Pier 17 into “The ESPN House,” where rapper 2 Chainz performed.
Discovery sent 100 workers to Nashville, Tenn., to join employees from Comcast South on Habitat for Humanity’s annual Carter Work Project (l. to r.): Paige Davis of TLC’s Trading Spaces; Dan Biederman, Kim Sasser Hayden and Erin Miranda, Comcast; Maneet Chauhan of Food Network’s Chopped; Hayley Swiney and Jonathan Palmer, Discovery; Terry Vo and Geoffrey Vera, Comcast Nashville; and Dave Salmoni, Animal Planet’s Animal Bites.
(From l.): Steve Kazanijan, president and CEO, Promax, Cleo Wade and Common at the 2019 Promax Conference in Los Angeles
CNN Worldwide was honored as Promax’s Global Excellence Marketing Team of the Year (l. to r.): Pierre Meilhan, Sean Houston, Yonathan Gebreyes, Jeff Mielcarz, Dan Brown, Rick Lewchuk, Leah Hall, Brandon Campbell, Margaret Anthony and Whit Friese.
Bas Alberts (l.)and Johan Nel of Amsterdam-based agency Dutch Toast with the Promax Award for Global Excellence Agency of the Year.
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