Topic: Barry Diller
Quotes
It was less than two months ago that Ticketmaster ended its 10-year partnership with Live Nation, and I'm extremely glad we could reunite with this combination
Ticketmaster, Live Nation agree to merger Feb 10, 2009
Armed with outstanding management teams, appropriate capital structures and their own currencies, HSNi, Ticketmaster, Interval and Tree.com are now ready for independent futures
IAC breaks down to five new companies Aug 21, 2008
The big four networks have in fact reconstituted themselves into the oligopoly that the FCC originally set out to curb in the 1960s
Think tanks wrap-up II May 13, 2003
For my nickel, let's call it a great day, and go on to the next thing
Hollywood Digest Dec 18, 2002
That structure has served us well, allowing exactly the right kind of entrepreneurial activity at the critical early stages in these new interactive business ideas as well as providing tremendous value creation for everyone involved. But now it's time for us to begin acting in cohesive concert with all the parts of the enterprise, where all of our businesses are aligned and integrated. We have so much opportunity that the only barrier to our becoming a truly great company will be in our ability to execute the ambitious agenda in front of us
Executive Business Briefing Jun 03, 2002
Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting.
Diller was born and raised in San Francisco, California, the son of Reva (née Addison) and Michael Diller. He began his career through a family connection in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after one semester. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President at the same time Diller went to work for him in 1964, taking him on to New York, and Diller was soon placed in charge of negotiating broadcast rights to feature films. He was promoted to Vice President of Development in 1965. In this position, Diller created the ABC Movie of the Week, pioneering the concept of the made-for-television movie through a regular series of 90-minute films produced exclusively for television.
Diller served for ten years as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation starting in 1974. With Diller at the helm, the studio produced hit television programs such as Laverne & Shirley (1976), Taxi (1978), and Cheers (1982) and films ranging from Saturday Night Fever (1977), and Grease (1978) to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and its sequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) to Terms of Endearment (1983) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
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