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NATPE: Glen Mazzara Says “Ask AMC” Why He Was Dropped From ‘Walking Dead’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 11:42am PSTTags: AMC, Glen Mazzara, NATPE, The Walking Dead

Former The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara said today that if you want to know why he suddenly lost his job on the hit show last year, he’s not your guy. “When people involved with the show are looking at the long-term plan, you know, they want something different. And what those differences are, you’d have to ask AMC,” he said Tuesday during a session at NATPE. Mazzara exited Walking Dead in December when AMC renewed the breakout series for a fourth season. “I was a hired gun coming in to support the creator of the show and, through odd circumstances, I ended up becoming the showrunner. I was just glad that I was able to contribute and not mess up the show, I see that as a win,” he added to laughs from the crowd. Earlier this month, Walking Dead supervising producer Scott Gimple was announced as Mazzara’s replacement. Mazzara was appearing on a panel in Miami with Lost co-creator/showrunner Damon Lindelof on the second day of the conference. The second part of The Walking Dead’s third season starts February 10.

Related: Kurt Sutter Slams “Small Minded” AMC Over ‘Walking Dead’ Showrunner Exit
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Mark Cuban Says Social Television Is The Future, Not Web: Video

By JEN YAMATO | Monday January 28, 2013 @ 1:15pm PSTTags: Mark Cuban, NATPE

Mark Cuban TVLive television is more vital a platform than digital and new media, said Mark Cuban during a session on the opening day of the 50th anniversary NATPE/Content First conference. “The Internet is designed for everything but video. Television is designed for video,” Cuban said this morning in his keynote speech, moderated by CNN’s Poppy Harlow, during which he staked his ground in television over YouTube, smart TV and other emerging platforms and emphasized the growing role of “social television”. Read More »

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NATPE: Twentieth TV’s ‘Dish Nation’ Renewed For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 28, 2013 @ 6:52am PSTTags: NATPE, Twentieth Television
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Twentieth TV-disrtributed freshman syndie strip Dish Nation has been has been renewed on the Fox Television Stations as well as  on Sinclair, Tribune, Cox, Meredith, Local TV and Lin stations. The announcement was made on Day … Read More »

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NATPE Taps ‘Walking Dead’s’ Glen Mazzara, ‘Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz & Ben Silverman As 2013 Speakers

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 10:10am PSTTags: NATPE

The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara and Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz will be speaking at NATPE, association president Rod Perth said today. The two producers will be part of the conference’s Storytellers That Shape Pop Culture series. Other speakers … Read More »

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Mark Cuban To Give NATPE Keynote

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 2:44pm PDTTags: Mark Cuban, NATPE

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2012 – NATPE President & CEO Rod Perth today announced that prominent investor Mark Cuban, owner-chairman of AXS TV (formerly HDNet) and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, will serve as the opening keynote speaker at the organization’s milestone 50th anniversary market and conference, to be held Jan. 28-30 at Miami Beach’s Fontainebleau Resort. Mr. Cuban’s session will kick off the three-day event built around the theme of moving “Beyond Disruption.” Mr. Cuban’s keynote conversation with CNN’s Poppy Harlow will headline the Game Changers track at NATPE||Content First, which spotlights leaders from some of the world’s top companies that have continually challenged mainstream thinking.

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NATPE Promotes Operations Exec

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 28, 2012 @ 10:47am PDTTags: NATPE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28, 2012 – NATPE||Content First has promoted Pamela Silverman to Director of Operations and Exhibitor Services. In her new role, Silverman will be responsible for both sales duties and operations for all NATPE events. She joined

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Steve Levitan, John Langley & Debra Lee To Receive NATPE Tartikoff Award

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday September 18, 2012 @ 10:08am PDTTags: NATPE

Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan, Cops executive producer John Langley and BET CEO Debra Lee will receive the 10th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award at next year’s NATPE conference, association president Rod Perth said today. “The criteria is about accomplishment, things that have truly contributed to the business in one way or another. It’s all about achievement and these people personify that,” Perth said during a conference call. The former USA Network president, who took over from Rick Feldman in May, said a fourth honoree would be announced later in the fall, as would the conference’s keynote speaker. Read More »

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Longtime TV Exec Rod Perth Named NATPE President & CEO

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 22, 2012 @ 9:47am PDTTags: NATPE

Rod Perth, a former president of USA Network and co-founder of ReelzChannel, has been appointed president and CEO of the National Association of Television Programming Executives. He will oversee the vision, strategic evolution, marketing, programming and financial/administrative operations of … Read More »

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Rick Feldman To Step Down As NATPE President & CEO, Will Stay As Consultant

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 1:38pm PSTTags: NATPE, Rick Feldman
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Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 7, 2012 – Rick Feldman, who has served as President and CEO of NATPE for the past nine years will segue, as planned, from his post at the end of his contract on April 30 into a three-year consultancy with the organization, it was jointly announced by Jordan Levin and Chris Grant, co-chairmen of NATPE.

NATPE has retained Korn Ferry to administer an executive search to select a new operating chief for NATPE.  Feldman will assist with the transition.

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NATPE Brass Tout Rising Attendance For 2012 Conference After Decade-Long Slump

By RAY RICHMOND | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 12:26pm PSTTags: Matthew Weiner, NATPE, Rick Feldman

The world is beating a path back to NATPE after the annual TV programming conference spent the better part of the last decade fighting for its survival. When NATPE’s 2012 Market & Conference unfolds January 23-25 in Miami Beach at the Fontainebleau Resort, it will feature in excess of 600 buyers, more than 200 exhibiting companies and some 5,500 attendees, NATPE president and CEO Rick Feldman estimated during a conference call with reporters this morning. That’s significantly greater interest than there was for the confab as recently as five years ago, Feldman stressed. “It’s not going to look like it did 15 years ago,” he was quick to add. “But relative to the market as it is today, we’ll be featuring the best contingent of domestic broadcasters that we’ve had in a very long time. From every single perspective — distributors, total attendees, buyers and advertisers — we’re either slightly to really nicely ahead of where we were. And a lot of the companies participating this time are new ones. If you look at the list, so many of them didn’t exist five years ago.” Also flocking back to NATPE after lackluster participation in recent years are the bigger agencies like UTA, CAA, WME and ICM, Feldman noted. Read More »

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Turner’s Phil Kent Keynote To Open NATPE

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 3:56pm PSTTags: Monaco Media Forum, NATPE, NATPE 2012, Phil Kent, Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System chairman and CEO Phil Kent has been tapped to give the keynote address on the first day of NATPE|Content First, the annual global content market for buyers and sellers that is set to run January 23-25 in … Read More »

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NATPE’s Tartikoff Award To Foursome

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 9:47am PSTTags: Matthew Weiner, NATPE

FreemantleMedia North American CEO and American Idol producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Colombian producer Fernando Gaitán, Fox president of station ops Dennis Swanson and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner will receive the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award at the next NATPE Market & … Read More »

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Netflix Aims To Outbid HBO For Warner Bros Films

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 9:54am PSTTags: Cable TV, HBO, Jeff Bewkes, Movies, NATPE, Netflix, Warner Bros

Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos today said that the company is poised to try to outbid HBO for Warner Bros films that currently go to the cable channel via the studio’s output deal. Speaking at the National Association of Television … Read More »

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NATPE NEWS: Debmar-Mercury Announces Daily Strip, Shine Int’l Signs Japanese Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 24, 2011 @ 10:34am PSTTags: America Now, Debmar-Mercury, NATPE, Shine International, TV, TV Deals
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News is coming in from Miami where the National Association of Television Program Executives’ annual confab kicked off today:

Debmar-Mercury is taking Raycom Media and ITV Studios America’s weekend lifestyle newsmagazine America Now and turning it in a daily syndicated strip … Read More »

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NATPE Elects Chairs & Board Of Directors

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 19, 2011 @ 9:24am PSTTags: Chris Grant, NATPE, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Chris Grant, President, Shine International, and Jordan Levin, CEO, Generate, have been elected NATPE 2011 co-chairs. Newly elected members of the 2011 NATPE Board are Rob Barnett, Founder and CEO, My Damn Channel; Cesar O. Diaz, Vice President of Sales, … Read More »

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NATPE Names Tartikoff Award Recipients

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 9:41am PDTTags: Dick Ebersol, Mary Hart, NATPE, Regis Philbin, TV
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NBC Sports & Olympics chairman Dick Ebersol; ET host Mary Hart, who is retiring from the entertainment newsmagazine after 30 seasons; veteran talk show host Regis Philbin and RTL CEO Gerhard Zeiler will receive NATPE’s 8th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award. It will be presented on Jan. 25 during the NATPE 2011 … Read More »

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