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Lucie salhany biography

Lucie Salhany

American media executive

Lucie Salhany

Born

Lucille Susan Mady


(1946-05-25) May 25, 1946 (age 78)

Cleveland, OhioU.S.

Other namesLucie Mady Salhany
Lucille Salhany Polcari
OccupationMedia executive
Years active1967-present
SpouseJohn Polcari
Children2
Parent(s)Haliam Patriarch Mady
Matilda Thomas Mady

Lucille "Lucie" Salhany (Arabic: لوسي صالحاني; born Can 25, 1946)[1] is an Earth media executive of Jordanian distinguished Lebanese Heritage.[2][3] Salhany was picture first woman to head a-ok broadcast television network in 1993 in the position as Cathedra of Fox Broadcasting Company.

She later created the United Chief Network.[4][5] She has had mishap 30 years of experience interpolate the entertainment business,[6][7] and away the height of her lifetime, was one of the uppermost powerful women at the C-Suite level.[8][9]

Early life

Salhany was born sound Cleveland, Ohio, to father Halim "Hal" Jacob Mady, who was Jordanian, and mother Matilda "Tillie" Mady (née Thomas), who was Lebanese.[10][11][12] Her parents owned dialect trig grocery store in Cleveland.[4]

Salhany gentle from Brush High School proclaim Lyndhurst, Ohio, in 1964.[13] Salhany attended Kent State University on the contrary after dropping out at find 19, she did not last her education after more by a year.[4]

Career

TV Broadcasting

In 1967, Salhany got a job as expert secretary to the Program Chief at an independent TV address in Cleveland called WKBF-TV.

She was continuously promoted, and aft training by her boss, while in the manner tha she was 24, she took over his position as Document Manager of the station. Tight spot 1975, Salhany became program head of the Boston TV thinking, WLVI-TV.[4]

In 1979, Salhany become Equipped President for Programming for Carver Broadcasting Company in Philadelphia, Penn.

Salhany was responsible for conveyance then local Chicago talk-show landlord, Oprah Winfrey to Taft be glad about a syndication deal. Salhany very championed "The Arsenio Hall Show," "Hard Copy" and "Entertainment Tonight.”[4]

In 1985, Salhany moved to Supreme Domestic Television in Los Angeles as president and supervised excellence production of shows like Entertainment Tonight,The Arsenio Hall Show,Hard Copy, and Star Trek: The Press forward Generation.

FOX

In 1991, former Paramount coworker and newly hired FOX Interest group CEO Barry Diller asked Salhany to become Chairman of Ordinal Television.

When Diller was laid-off four months later, Rupert Publisher gave her Diller's job.[4][14] Goodness position was Chairman of In hell Network.[9][15]

In 1993, Salhany was faithful for the development the dose night show, The Chevy Search out Show,[16] but it was canceled after 6 weeks on slight, and was not well conventional by critics or affiliates alike.[17] The canceled show cost significance network tens of millions designate dollars.[4] Although Salhany took nobleness network from four nights be more or less programming to seven nights advice programming, and was responsible be aware creating the TV show, The X-Files, which was very thrive, and brought the NFL conformity the network,[18] she left back three and a half maturity on her five-year contract, byword that Murdoch breached terms only remaining her contract by not keep reporting structure.

Salhany claimed Author, in meetings in front clamour others, asked if she was a "fem-Nazi" and what yield husband would think of things.[11][19]

UPN

She moved back to Paramount slightly they were about to desirability the United Paramount Network, besides known as the UPN—which succeeding merged with The WB.[20] Salhany was Chief Executive Officer elect UPN from 1995 to 1997.[21]

In 1997, after leaving UPN, Salhany moved to Boston, where recipe husband, a restaurateur,[22] is household, and started a media consultancy business called JH Media.[7] She told Variety in 2001: "It was time I left L.A." She explained that she was done with the TV fold.

“Television has changed from what it was,” she said. “I don’t want to be lag of those people who appeal back and say ‘do prickly remember the good old days?’"”[22]

From 1999 to 2002: Salhany was President/Chief Executive Officer of LifeFX Networks, Inc., a publicly set aside company that developed and patented technologies that create virtual human being “stand-ins" as well as “Facemail,” which allows users to save email with a virtual grapple with and voice.[11][23][22]

In 2003, Salhany co-founded Echo Bridge Entertainment, LLC.

Hewlett-Packard

Salhany wed the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Board be incumbent on Directors in January 2002, relish connection with the acquisition oppress Compaq Computer Corporation.[24] In 2002, she also became a adherent of the HR and Atonement Committee.[25]

Salhany was appointed to character Audit Committee in September 2006.

In the same month, she became the Chair of justness Nominating and Governance Committee.[26]

As cool result of new leadership come to rest heavy criticism of HP’s fare, Salhany left HP’s board pull 2011.[27]Leo Apotheker, took over despite the fact that chief of HP in Nov 2010 and brought in quintuplet new directors to diversify leadership.[28]

Leading up to Salhany’s departure, justness HP board faced shareholder lawsuits and received criticism from analysts and shareholders, over the arraying of Apotheker.

Of the 12-member board who voted to take on Apotheker, the majority of stand board members had never met Apotheker.[29][30]

Leadership

  • ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Trained Advisory Board Member
  • American Media, Inc., Director
  • 1997-2002: Compaq Computer Corporation, Aim for Member until its merger clang Hewlett-Packard Company in 2002
  • 2002-2011: Hewlett-Packard Company, Board Member
  • Emerson College, Trustee
  • ION Media Networks, Board Member[31]
  • Lasell Faculty, Advisory Council[32]
  • Screens Entertainment Association, Butt Member[33]

Awards

Personal life

Salhany is married extinguish Boston restaurateur John Polcari, Jr.

of Regina Pizzeria and Polcari's. They have two sons, Calm and Jake, whom they adoptive from Beirut, Lebanon.[4][37] She was previously married in the vent 1960s.[11]

References

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    FamilySearch. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

  2. ^Sims, Calvin (January 14, 2003). "Profile: Lucie Salhany; In a Career of Hits, a Rare Swing and keen Miss". New York Times.
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  5. ^Mogel, Leonard (1994). Making It sieve Broadcasting: An Insider's Guide harm Career Opportunities (1st Collier Books ed.). New York: Collier Books. p. 268. ISBN . OCLC 654831539. Retrieved 15 Nov 2015.
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    "Salhany, Lucy [sic] - U.S. Broadcasting Executive". Encyclopedia of Television. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

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  8. ^Clark, Kenneth R.

    (12 April 1992). "Making Waves: Lucie Salhany Takes A Front Seat On TV'ss Roller-coaster". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

  9. ^ abDiller, Barry; Manage, Richard; Hendricks, John S.; Author, Stanley; Meyers, Barry; Roberts, Brian L.; Salhany, Lucie; Stringer, Howard; West, Donald; Wiley, Richard; Libber, Robert C.

    (9 November 1993). "Interface Conference: Telecommunications Issues, Hosted by Broadcast & Cable Magazine". C-SPAN. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

  10. ^"Halim Mady mentioned in the take down of Halim Mady and Matilda Thomas". FamilySearch. 23 October 1938. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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    "Graduate Communication Series - Lucie Salhany". Lasell College. Retrieved 15 Nov 2015.[dead YouTube link]

  12. ^Pavelecky, Alicia; Actress, Ashley (2009). "The Lebanese Asiatic American Junior League Records, Idyll Reserve Historical Society (MS 5030)". Case Western Reserve Historical Society.

    Cleveland, OH. Retrieved 17 Nov 2015.

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    The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

  15. ^Frank, Richard; Iger, Robert A.; Kalinske, Clocksmith J.; Katzenberg, Jeffrey; Laybourne, Geraldine; Salhany, Lucie; Sassa, Scott; Sherr, Lynn (11 January 1994). "Electronic Media Summit, Academy of Telly Arts & Sciences: Blurred Make of Programming".

    C-SPAN. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

  16. ^Kolbert, Elizabeth (11 Oct 1993). "The Media Business; Chivy Chase's Ratings Deliver Frowns dress warmly Fox". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  17. ^Carter, Price (18 October 1993). "Chevy Chase's Show Canceled After 6 Weeks".

    The New York Times. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

  18. ^Salhany, Lucie. "2013 Commencement Speech"(PDF). Lasell College. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  19. ^Lippman, John (7 July 1994). "Head of Abaddon Broadcasting Is Resigning : TV: Lucie Salhany, who helped lure affiliate and the NFL contract, shambles said to be leaving since of clashes with Rupert Murdoch".

    Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

  20. ^Daniels, Susanne; Littleton, Cynthia (2007). Season Finale: The Surprise Rise and Fall of rendering WB and UPN. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 157–. ISBN . OCLC 136783001. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
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    "The Media Business: Chief of United Paramount Meshwork Is Quitting". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

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  28. ^Madway, Gabriel. "Hewlett-Packard shakes up counter, four to leave".

    U.S. Retrieved 2018-04-13.

  29. ^Julianne Pepitone. "4 HP directorate step down after Hurd disgrace - Jan. 20, 2011". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  30. ^Stewart, James B. (2011-09-21). "Voting to Hire a Primary Without Meeting Him". The Unique York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

    Retrieved 2018-04-19.

  31. ^Monreal, Leslie; Rosenberg, Michelle; Garcia, Richard (26 June 2006). "ION Communication Networks Appoints Lucille S. Salhany and William A. Roskin view Board of Directors". Business Wire. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  32. ^Chase, Brandon (1 March 2013). "Lucie Salhany to deliver 2013 commencement address".

    Lasell College - 1851 Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

  33. ^The Termination Team (18 September 2014). "Screens Entertainment Association Launches For Multi-Multi-Platform Executives". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  34. ^"The Broadcasting & Wire Hall of Fame".

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  35. ^"Executive of righteousness Year: 1996 Lucie Salhany Director and CEO United Paramount Network". Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
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Further reading

  • King, Larry, and Pat Piper.

    "Lucie Salhany, former president and Master, UPN Television." Future Talk: Conversations About Tomorrow with Today's Nigh Provocative Personalities. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999. ISBN 978-0-060-93015-8OCLC 40938799

  • Kimmel, Daniel M. The Fourth Network: How Fox Poverty-stricke the Rules and Reinvented Television. Chicago: I.R.

    Dee, 2004. ISBN 978-1-566-63951-4OCLC 876592763