New York executives
Fox
Chase Carey
Co-Chief Operating Officer
News Corp.
Chairman and Chief Executive
Fox Television
The deal maker at Fox… Long-term strategist… Oversees all operations of Fox Television, which includes Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox TV stations, the domestic syndication unit and Fox Television’s cable interests… Named CEO of Fox Television in 1994… Joined Fox Inc. in 1988 as chief financial officer, named COO in 1992… Force behind the deal to get the NFL, NHL and Major League Baseball on Fox Helped build Fox Sports Net, the regional sports network.
Led the deal to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers Got Fox minority stakes in Staples Center, Los Angeles Kings and Lakers Playmaker in international deals in Asia and Latin America Harvard MBA and graduate of Colgate University Worked for Columbia Pictures in several executive positions, including president of pay/cable and home entertainment and executive vice president of Columbia Pictures International.
Roger Ailes
Fox News
Former political consultant Gruff and hard-charging Worked on campaign for Richard Nixon and other Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush… Considered shrewd, innovative Believes network news has been a refuge of liberalism and slanted news coverage Aims to make Fox News “fair and balanced.”
Created a news division for the Fox network from scratch in 1996, took six months… Oversees “Fox Files,” which he personally produces, and “Fox News Sunday,” which the Clinton administration said was packed with “Clinton-haters” Fox News’ cable channel has begun to challenge and surpass MSNBC, NBC’s all-news channel. Ironically, Ailes used to work for NBC as president of CNBC, which became a major outlet for business news… While at CNBC, Ailes pushed revenues from $9 million to more than $100 million… Expanded CNBC to Asia and Europe.
Former head of America’s Talking, an information talk cable channel that later became MSNBC… Began TV career as a prop boy at syndicated “The Mike Douglas Show,” where he was named executive producer at the age of 25 Graduate of Ohio University.
