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115 NATPE - 2011 Monday Jan 24-26 - Miami
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115 NATPE-Miami Beach-Monday Jan 24th 2011
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NATPE's Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award is
presented each year at a special reception
during the annual NATPE Market &
Conference. Ebersol, Mary Hart, Regis
Philbin and Gerhard Zeiler will receive
NATPE||Content First's 8th annual Brandon
Tartikoff Legacy
Award, to be
presented on Tuesday, Jan. 25 during the
NATPE 2011 Market & Conference, at the
Fontainebleau Resort in Miami
Beach.
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Proceeds benefit the NATPE
Educational Foundation.
Named in honor of Brandon Tartikoff,
arguably one of television's greatest
programmers, the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy
Award was created to recognize the
extraordinary passion, leadership,
independence and vision in creating
television programming that defined
Tartikoff's character and career.
•••Tartikoff
spent 11 years as head of entertainment
programming for
NBC.
•••To
consider all that Brandon Tartikoff
accomplished as president of NBC
Entertainment, it's important to remember
how bad NBC was in 1981, when, at 31,
Tartikoff took over. But in a few short
years, after hits like
Cheers, Hill Street Blues, The Cosby Show,
Family Ties, Golden Girls and St.
Elsewhere, NBC was not only on top of the
ratings but did so with the creation of
programs that were to this day among the
best in TV
history. •Part
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• About
the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award
Recipients.
Tartikoff passed away in 1997, at the age
of 48, from Hodgkin's disease, which
he had fought-unknown to all but a few
close friends-since he was just out of
college. The Brandon Tartikoff Legacy
Awards began in 2004, and have become an
honor that program executives and creators
treasure.
•••Individuals
are nominated for Award consideration with
the oversight of NATPE's Executive
Committee and the executive editorial
staffs of Broadcasting & Cable,
Multichannel News and Variety.
Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel
News, Variety and NBC Universal are proud
sponsors of this prestigous
event.
•••Those
who knew Tartikoff appreciated his sense
of humor and his respect for the creative
process. He made the television industry
better, as this year's four
winners.
•••"We
believe that this year's recipients, Dick,
Mary, Regis and Gerhard have remarkably
shaped the global television industry on
both business and pop cultural levels, and
truly embody the spirit of the Brandon
Tartikoff Legacy Award," said Rick
Feldman, NATPE President &
CEO. •••"Both
NATPE and Lilly Tartikoff Karatz are
delighted to honor the recipients' storied
careers through this special
celebration."
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Dick Ebersol - A prolific producer and
executive, Dick
Ebersol is currently the Chairman of NBC
Universal Sports & Olympics, and in
the past three decades has produced eight
of the top 10 most-watched television
events in U.S. history. Responsible for
award-winning sports, entertainment and
news productions, Ebersol negotiated an
unprecedented number of Summer and Winter
Olympics broadcasting rights deals for
NBC, establishing NBC as "America's
Olympic Network." Not only a powerhouse
sports broadcasting executive, Ebersol
also conceived and created Saturday Night
Live with Lorne Michaels. He was awarded
the Olympic Order in 1992 by the
International Olympic Committee and is a
part of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. •
Mary Hart - is the host of the No. 1
syndicated entertainment newsmagazine show in the
world, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. For the past
29 seasons, Hart has interviewed some of
the most distinguished personalities in
entertainment while providing compelling
coverage of global events and major news.
She was the only journalist granted access
to Quincy Jones' all-star recording
session for "We are the World," and the
only entertainment journalist who
interviewed all presidential and
vice-presidential candidates during the
2008 presidential
campaign.
•••She
is a member of Broadcasting & Cable's
Hall of Fame and was awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is also
actively involved in several philanthropic
organizations dedicated to children.
Earlier this year Hart announced that the
2010-2011 season will be her last as host
of ENTERTAINMENT
TONIGHT. •
Regis Philbin - is an Emmy Award-winning
broadcasting industry
icon. Since
first stepping in front of the camera more
than 40 years ago, he has ambitiously
tackled talk shows, game shows, the
literary world and even the music
industry. Philbin is best known for his
many years as co-host of the
nationally-syndicated morning program
"LIVE! with Regis and Kelly." He later
took his
daytime success to primetime as host of
ABC's ratings juggernaut "Who Wants To Be
A Millionaire." • 03 Regis Philbin will
resign from his daily talk show"Live! With
Regis and Kelly."
After 28 years, Philbin said he will step
down around the end of the summer or fall,
but he didn't specify a departure
date. • The
National Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences honored Philbin with a Daytime Emmy as
Outstanding Talk Show Host for "LIVE," and
another Emmy award as Outstanding Game
Show Host for "Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire." He has been inducted to the
National Association of Broadcasters Hall
of Fame and the Academy of Television Arts
& Sciences Hall of Fame, and was
honored with the Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 2008 Daytime Emmys. He also
holds the Guinness World Record™ for
"Most Hours on Camera." •
Gerhard Zeiler - is CEO of the European
television and radio network RTL
Group and
member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive
Board. He is the first international
recipient of the Award. During his tenure
RTL Group has impressively grown to have
shareholdings in 45 television channels
and 32 radio stations in 11 countries,
becoming Europe's leading family of
entertainment channels. Nearly 200 million
people tune into RTL networks every
day.
•••Under
Zeiler's leadership, RTL Group has become
actively involved in worldwide content
production through its production arm,
Fremantle Media. The company currently
produces more than 300 programs and 10,000
hours of programming yearly in 57
countries including film and series.
Zeiler was named Media Personality of the
Year at MIPCOM in
2004. 04.
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NATPE||Content First is a global,
nonprofit organization committed to
serving as a catalyst for the content
revolution. Evolving to meet the needs of
a changing media landscape, NATPE, through
its many activities including exclusive
videos, live streaming events and vibrant
annual market, is at the nexus of the
multiplatform content
world. •
WHAT NATPE DOES /
NATPE does
provide valuable -- information and
resources to its membership, which is
comprised of companies and individuals
involved in or wanting to become involved
with the creation, development and
distribution of television
programming;
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does serve as a catalyst for idea sharing,
discussion and debate regarding trends and
practices in the television industry as it
relates to programming.
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NATPE does provide its members with 24/7
-- access to
accurate databases of global information,
worldwide industry news, trends, and
creates opportunities for its members to
advance themselves and the industry
through its annual Conference &
Exhibition, regional workshops and
seminars, demonstrations, gatherings and
other means of overall support.NATPE is a
global, non-profit organization dedicated
to the creation, development and
distribution of televised programming in
all forms across all mature and emerging
media
platforms. •
NATPE develops and nurtures opportunities,
both -- commercial and
educational, for buying, selling and
sharing of content and ideas.
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NATPE||Content First is a global,
nonprofit organization -- committed to serving as a catalyst for
the content revolution. Evolving to meet
the needs of a changing media landscape,
NATPE, through its many activities
including exclusive videos, live streaming
events and vibrant annual market, is at
the nexus of the multiplatform content
world.
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