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Four months after she left the CW to relocate to New York, Dawn Ostroff has found her new gig — president of Condé Nast Entertainment. This is a newly launched division as the top magazine publisher is looking to enter the film/TV/digital space. Former CW Entertainment president Ostroff will be responsible for the development, creation, production and distribution of original television, film and digital initiatives based on Condé Nast’s portfolio of brands, which includes Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour and Architectural Digest. She starts right away. “I am very excited to have the chance to build this business for Condé Nast, a company that already has a long history of engaging audiences across print and digital platforms,” Ostroff said.
Ostroff launched the CW broadcast network and led it from 2006 until May. She segued to that role from serving as President of UPN Network from 2002-2006. Ostroff joined UPN from Lifetime, where she served as EVP of Entertainment from 1996-2002.
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So that is where tasteless execs go after they fail for years.
Can’t wait to see all the seminal, quality content this deal generates. Yawn.
How does “Du-awn Tarnowsky” get to keep failing up? Who is she fooling? Is the shortage of decent execs this bad? She has some really good karma. There’s no other way to explain it.
So what happened to her wanting to spend more time with her family?
*rolls eyes* Dawn Ostroff… off to destroy more networks.
She cancelled Veronica Mars & Everwood, gave 7th Heaven a 55th season. God she’s horrible.
You have that wrong. She kept Veronica Mars on for three seasons, even though the ratings weren’t there.
Really? It did better than Gossip Girl.
If Veronica Mars was on the air today it’d be getting lower ratings than Gossip Girl. At the time VM ended even burn-offs of Reba got twice the ratings Veronica had. Even Reaper – a show that the CW never cared to promote – got higher ratings, and that only got a season and a half.
Nice try though.
VM, Everwood and Everwood had better ratings than Gossip Girl and 90210. Those two shows have minuscle ratings. CW stations have beeing going banktrupt for years due to lousy ratings, and Time Warner has been limping along the entire time.
Cancelling Veronica Mars was one of the few things she got right. It shouldn’t have even had a Season 3, but boy that FBI pilot was awful. The only reason it got a third year to begin with was because it was Dawn’s “baby.”
Ending Everwood, however, was a bonehead move. The first of many.
Tell that to Harry Pappas; his CW stations went bankrupt due to the crappy ratings.
Dear Dawn,
Please keep your freakin’ hands off the New Yorker.
Thank you.
The New Yorker will now be called “New York Minute!”, with the Olsen twins as the new editors. Stories will focus on life at NYC’s prep schools and behind the scenes at fashion week. The cartoons will be done away with competely because they are too confusing.
Wow. Another flunkie exec flunks upward. Are the people doing the hiring getting bought off or are they just as clueless as Dawn Ostroff is? If the latter, then it’s a match made in heaven. And she’s the luckiest idiot in the world.
From failing upwards to golden parachutes, wonders never cease how the truly talentless manage to manipulate the system and succeed. Unbelievable.
Actually, knowing Dawn this is kind of the perfect job for her and she will excel at it
55th season?
OMG the bile here is palpable. You all act like Dawn killed your dog. Who gives a fuck about Veronica Mars? From what I understand you’re lucky it made it to season 3. Everwood? Really? How many years ago was that, five?
Would either of those shows have survived the WB change into the CW?
Get lives, people.
Good luck, Dawn. Can I send you a resume?
LOL.
This woman is so awful. Not only from a personal standpoint, but from a professional standpoint. She’s cold, mean, self-absorbed, and couldn’t last a day unless she had someone doing something for her. a complete PHONY. I thought Graydon Carter had better taste…
Countdown to the divorce.
i love this showw
Dawn, like most of the other broadcast presidents had no idea how to schedule or promote shows, which can result in cancellation. Though, she was probably more criticized because the CW was a brand new network and an experiment when it began in 2006. But there are broadcast presidents much worse than Dawn, look at ABC and the former NBC president. Dawn was still an idiot with her decisions and held the CW back from developing further than just having moody teen girl dramas. It has already begun to develop and do decent just a few months into the first TV season without her.
Good luck to Dawn, but if she messes up, it’s Conde? Nast’s fault for hiring her.
Congratulations to Dawn! This is a terrific fit. Dawn created Gossip Girls and America’s Top Model. She’s perfect for extending the brand of Vogue, Teen Vogue, WWD, etc
I don’t understand how this would work, it’s not like she gets first crack on articles by Mark Bowden or Michael Lewis. Although it could be a hilarious exercise in corporate synergy – the journalists behind ‘Black Hawk Down’ and ‘Moneyball’ forced to work with the executive who masterminded ‘TBL: The Beautiful Life’ and ‘H8er’.
Well folks, there goes that company. Anything this woman touches her hands on she destroys…look at UPN and the CW for further proof of this and now poor Conde Nast Entertainment having to hire her. WOW! I feel bad for Mark Pedowitz having to endure those horrible programs she approved before she left that network and most of them are failing, but gee, what a surprise there. Talk about taking her ball and chain and running.