John Agoglia, the tough as nails head of business affairs at NBC during its Must See TV glory days, died on March 14 after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 76. A Brooklyn, NY native, Agoglia started at NBC in 1980 after a 16-year stint at CBS, working under entertainment chiefs Brandon Tartikoff and Warren Littlefield during NBC’s heady Must See TV days. That was the good news and the bad given that, in those days, networks did not own most of the programming on their primetime schedule, so that when a series became a hit, negotiations to keep the program on the lineup often got extremely contentious, to the delight of trade reporters. Among the well-covered slug-fests in which Agoglia played a key role, were the talks to hang on to Seinfeld stars Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards at the height of that show’s popularity and they were demanding $1 million an episode.
- 3/19/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Former Walt Disney Studios chairman Richard (Dick) Cook has been elected Chairman of the KCETLink Board of Directors for Fiscal 2014, effective immediately, KCETLink said today. Cook has served on the KCETLink Board since January 2010 as a Vice Chair. Additional KCETLink officers include: Don Buder as Vice Chair; Gordon Bava as Secretary; David J. Zuercher as Treasurer; Al Jerome as Chief Executive Officer; and June M. Baldwin as Assistant Secretary. The KCETLink Board of Directors also includes: John Agoglia, Linda Brown, Danny Glover, Pierre Habis, Channing Johnson, David G. Johnson, William Kobin, Robert Ottenhoff, Rachel Payne, James Rothenberg, John Sotoodeh, Judy Tam and Richard L. Zaldivar.
- 8/5/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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