Tony Vinciquerra (pictured)
Title: President/CEO Fox Networks Group
Bob Thompson
Title: President, Fox National Sports Networks; President,
Fox Sports International
Mike Hopkins
Title: EVP/GM, affiliate sales & marketing, Fox Cable
Networks
ment, Hopkins has
been earning props
as an innovative force
in getting distribution
for almost all of Fox
Cable’s networks. He
has also stepped up
collaborations with
sister companies
Fox Interactive Media, Fox Digital Entertainment and Fox
Mobile Entertainment. CAO
Why Them? It isn’t exactly a calming experience sitting
atop the vast and diversified empire that is Fox Networks.
But you wouldn’t know it to spend face time with Tony
Vinciquerra, who exudes cool confidence even as he juggles more than 30 networks from the powerful Fox Sports
Nets to FX and NatGeo. Thompson oversees marketing,
advertising, promotion, programming and production—and
let’s not forget those key rights agreement negotiations
with teams, leagues, and college conferences—for Fox’s
sports networks both stateside and abroad. He’s currently
coaching his newest team member, the Big Ten Network,
with recent carriage deals with Insight and EchoStar. Less
than a year into his new gig as Lindsay Gardner’s replace-
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Tony Vinciquerra
The cable industry’s biggest challenge in 2008 is:
“Understanding its customers.” In my free time, I like to:
“Chase my girls around the house!” I wish cable would:
“Have fewer industry meetings to travel to…”
Bob Thompson
The coolest new cable tech is: “Switched video”
Defining career moment: “Agreeing to move to Denver
in 1989 to start the local RSN.” Biggest cable surprise of
2007: “Subscriber losses for the major MSOs.” My perfect
vacation goes like this: “Ten days in Hawaii playing golf.”
Judy McGrath
Title: President/CEO, MTVN
Doug Herzog (pictured, right)
Title: President, MTVN Entertainment Group
Why Them? Despite restructuring challenges, music television muse McGrath remains undaunted in her drive to foster
fresh thinking at 1515 Broadway, while at the same time
driving hard to produce profits across multiple platforms.
The shuffling of MTVN properties and personnel continued
in ‘07, but so too did the onslaught of creative ways to
expand its core properties, including the launch of some 25
Web sites devoted to specific shows like Comedy Central’s
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” Nick’s “iCarly,” and
MTV’s “Engaged and Underage.” Herzog—along with newly
promoted Comedy Central president Michelle Ganeless—is
also pushing hard to take MTVN entertainment to new territories. He helped orchestrate the recent deal to bring “South
Park”-related content across the Web and mobile platforms.
Doug Herzog Biggest cable surprise of 2007: “Ice
Road Truckers” Most embarrassing cable moment:
“A show on MTV called ‘Catwalk’.” Favorite restaurant:
“Any restaurant on a Saturday night with my wife.”
