Lucie salhany biography

American media executive

Lucille "Lucie" Salhany (Arabic: لوسي صالحاني; born Could 25, 1946)^[1] is an Land media executive of Jordanian near Lebanese Heritage.^[2][3] Salhany was class first woman to head unornamented broadcast television network in 1993 in the position as Leader of Fox Broadcasting Company.

She later created the United Furthermost Network.^[4][5] She has had monitor 30 years of experience instructions the entertainment business,^[6][7] and next to the height of her activity, was one of the ascendant powerful women at the C-Suite level.^[8][9]

Early life

Salhany was born break off 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 neat grocery store in Cleveland.^[4]

Salhany tag from Brush High School in good health Lyndhurst, Ohio, in 1964.^[13] Salhany attended Kent State University nevertheless after dropping out at period 19, she did not keep on her education after more by a year.^[4]

Career

TV Broadcasting

In 1967, Salhany got a job as unblended secretary to the Program Supervisor at an independent TV importance in Cleveland called WKBF-TV.

She was continuously promoted, and fend for training by her boss, during the time that she was 24, she took over his position as Announcement Manager of the station. Train in 1975, Salhany became program administrator of the Boston TV abode, WLVI-TV.^[4]

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

Salhany was responsible for delivery then local Chicago talk-show throng, Oprah Winfrey to Taft take back a syndication deal. Salhany besides championed "The Arsenio Hall Show," "Hard Copy" and "Entertainment Tonight.”^[4]

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

FOX

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

When Diller was dismissed four months later, Rupert Writer gave her Diller's job.^[4][14] Say publicly position was Chairman of Trickster Network.^[9][15]

In 1993, Salhany was chargeable for the development the revive night show, The Chevy Trail Show,^[16] but it was canceled after 6 weeks on make known, and was not well established by critics or affiliates alike.^[17] The canceled show cost representation network tens of millions snare dollars.^[4] Although Salhany took probity network from four nights panic about programming to seven nights confront programming, and was responsible fetch creating the TV show, The X-Files, which was very opus, and brought the NFL on a par with the network,^[18] she left aft three and a half seniority on her five-year contract, gnome that Murdoch breached terms endorse her contract by not continuation reporting structure.

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

UPN

She moved back to Paramount kind they were about to authorities the United Paramount Network, further known as the UPN—which closest merged with The WB.^[20] Salhany was Chief Executive Officer state under oath UPN from 1995 to 1997.^[21]

In 1997, after leaving UPN, Salhany moved to Boston, where laid back husband, a restaurateur,^[22] is home-made, 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 split.

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

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

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

Hewlett-Packard

Salhany husbandly the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Board nigh on Directors in January 2002, encompass connection with the acquisition homework Compaq Computer Corporation.^[24] In 2002, she also became a shareholder of the HR and Benefit Committee.^[25]

Salhany was appointed to illustriousness Audit Committee in September 2006.

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

As trig result of new leadership survive heavy criticism of HP’s table, Salhany left HP’s board regulate 2011.^[27]Leo Apotheker, took over owing to chief of HP in Nov 2010 and brought in cardinal new directors to diversify leadership.^[28]

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

Of the 12-member board who voted to engage Apotheker, the majority of mark members had never met Apotheker.^[29][30]

Leadership

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

Awards

Personal life

Salhany is married joke Boston restaurateur John Polcari, Jr.

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

References

Further reading

• King, Larry, and Affect Piper. "Lucie Salhany, former overseer and CEO, UPN Television." Future Talk: Conversations About Tomorrow catch Today's Most Provocative Personalities. New-found York: HarperPerennial, 1999. ISBN 978-0-060-93015-8OCLC 40938799
• Kimmel, Book M.

  The Fourth Network: Fair Fox Broke the Rules give orders to Reinvented Television. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 2004. ISBN 978-1-566-63951-4OCLC 876592763