Where are they now?
Where are they now?
Dec 6, 2005
We don't hear their names mentioned quite as much as we did a few years back, but that doesn't mean Karey Burke, Patricia Fili-Krushel, Margaret Loesch, Lucie Salhany and Jamie Tarses aren't still wielding power. All five of the Power 100 alumni remain gainfully employed in entertainment, either creating, developing, distributing, producing or administrating (or some combination of the same). They've traded in high-level positions at major TV networks for less-visible but equally challenging posts behind the scenes at fledgling production houses and startups -- all except for Fili-Krushel, who remains a key player at a place called Time Warner Inc. But that gets us ahead of the story. Following are brief updates:
1. Karey Burke
The former executive vp primetime series development at NBC is now the latest older woman to enter Ashton Kutcher's life. But it's not quite how it sounds. Burke joined Kutcher and Jason Goldberg over the summer as the third partner in the small-screen production house Katalyst Television -- which is still working under a two-year overall deal at 20th Century Fox Television. During her decade at NBC that ended in May 2004, Burke helped develop such peacock hits as "Ed," "Friends," "NewsRadio" and "Scrubs." She briefly formed a production partnership with former NBC colleague Jamie Tarses before leaping to Katalyst.
2. Patricia Fili-Krushel
As executive vp administration at Time Warner Inc., Fili-Krushel oversees corporate human resources, employee development and growth, compensation and benefits, corporate philanthropy and other areas as a valued senior management teammate. It's a post she filled in July 2001, coming over from the Internet site WebMD Health (where Fili-Krushel had served as CEO for a little more than a year). From 1998-2000, she was president of ABC, responsible for heading up all programming and business areas at the network. Prior to that, she headed up ABC Daytime and launched the popular femme-skewing talker "The View."
3. Margaret Loesch
In the early 1990s, Loesch grew to become perhaps the most powerful woman in children's television as the founding president, CEO and key architect of the Fox Kids Network, which literally reshaped the landscape of kids' entertainment. She later successfully launched the Hallmark Channel as president and CEO of Crown Media U.S. In late 2003, Loesch became a partner (along with Bruce Stein and Dan Angel) in the Hatchery, which develops and produces family and children's entertainment properties in film, television, direct-to-home videos and consumer products. Among the projects the company recently pitched: a small-screen version of the 2003 family film "Holes." Loesch also produced the 2004 feature "Benji: Off the Leash!"
4. Lucie Salhany
Salhany presently serves as one of four founding partners at Echo Bridge Entertainment, a sales and distribution company launched in 2003 that acquires worldwide rights to theatrical films while also selectively targeting and obtaining film libraries. But beginning 20 years ago, Salhany ascended to the very top of television's executive ranks -- first as president of Paramount Domestic Television (1985-91), then as chairman of Twentieth Television (1991-93). She followed that by becoming the first woman ever to head a TV network as chairman of Fox Broadcasting (1993-94) and finally served as president and CEO of United Paramount Network at its 1995 launch, staying until 1997.
5. Jamie Tarses
During her tumultuous three-year reign overseeing ABC Entertainment (1996-99) as the first woman to run a network entertainment division, Tarses was described as "embattled" so often that it seemed to be her new first name. But Tarses -- the daughter of famed producer Jay Tarses ("Buffalo Bill") and senior vp primetime series at NBC prior to jumping to ABC -- has proved to be quite the survivor. She first linked up with longtime colleague Burke at the NBC-based production house Untitled Burke/Tarses Project and then, in September, broke away to join Gavin Polone as a full partner in his high-volume film/TV company Pariah.
1. Karey Burke
The former executive vp primetime series development at NBC is now the latest older woman to enter Ashton Kutcher's life. But it's not quite how it sounds. Burke joined Kutcher and Jason Goldberg over the summer as the third partner in the small-screen production house Katalyst Television -- which is still working under a two-year overall deal at 20th Century Fox Television. During her decade at NBC that ended in May 2004, Burke helped develop such peacock hits as "Ed," "Friends," "NewsRadio" and "Scrubs." She briefly formed a production partnership with former NBC colleague Jamie Tarses before leaping to Katalyst.
2. Patricia Fili-Krushel
As executive vp administration at Time Warner Inc., Fili-Krushel oversees corporate human resources, employee development and growth, compensation and benefits, corporate philanthropy and other areas as a valued senior management teammate. It's a post she filled in July 2001, coming over from the Internet site WebMD Health (where Fili-Krushel had served as CEO for a little more than a year). From 1998-2000, she was president of ABC, responsible for heading up all programming and business areas at the network. Prior to that, she headed up ABC Daytime and launched the popular femme-skewing talker "The View."
3. Margaret Loesch
In the early 1990s, Loesch grew to become perhaps the most powerful woman in children's television as the founding president, CEO and key architect of the Fox Kids Network, which literally reshaped the landscape of kids' entertainment. She later successfully launched the Hallmark Channel as president and CEO of Crown Media U.S. In late 2003, Loesch became a partner (along with Bruce Stein and Dan Angel) in the Hatchery, which develops and produces family and children's entertainment properties in film, television, direct-to-home videos and consumer products. Among the projects the company recently pitched: a small-screen version of the 2003 family film "Holes." Loesch also produced the 2004 feature "Benji: Off the Leash!"
4. Lucie Salhany
Salhany presently serves as one of four founding partners at Echo Bridge Entertainment, a sales and distribution company launched in 2003 that acquires worldwide rights to theatrical films while also selectively targeting and obtaining film libraries. But beginning 20 years ago, Salhany ascended to the very top of television's executive ranks -- first as president of Paramount Domestic Television (1985-91), then as chairman of Twentieth Television (1991-93). She followed that by becoming the first woman ever to head a TV network as chairman of Fox Broadcasting (1993-94) and finally served as president and CEO of United Paramount Network at its 1995 launch, staying until 1997.
5. Jamie Tarses
During her tumultuous three-year reign overseeing ABC Entertainment (1996-99) as the first woman to run a network entertainment division, Tarses was described as "embattled" so often that it seemed to be her new first name. But Tarses -- the daughter of famed producer Jay Tarses ("Buffalo Bill") and senior vp primetime series at NBC prior to jumping to ABC -- has proved to be quite the survivor. She first linked up with longtime colleague Burke at the NBC-based production house Untitled Burke/Tarses Project and then, in September, broke away to join Gavin Polone as a full partner in his high-volume film/TV company Pariah.
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