Barry Diller
Barry Diller · Economics & Business
Invented the made-for-television movie and the miniseries at ABC, ran Paramount, and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 — America's fourth network.
2 February 1942, San Francisco, California, USA
Los Angeles and New York, USA
Fox Broadcasting Company1986
IAC1995Barry Diller is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Invented the made-for-television movie and the miniseries at ABC, ran Paramount, and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 — America's fourth network.
Barry Charles Diller was born in San Francisco and grew up in Beverly Hills; New York magazine described him in 2012 as a 'second generation Austrian Jewish kid'. In the mailroom at the William Morris agency he read every file in the place, and at ABC he invented two forms at once — the made-for-television movie and the miniseries. He ran Paramount, then Twentieth Century-Fox, and in 1986 founded the Fox Broadcasting Company with Rupert Murdoch: the first new American network in decades and the one that broke the three-network order. He went on to build QVC, USA Networks, IAC and Expedia, and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Invented the made-for-television movie and the miniseries at ABC, ran Paramount, and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 — America's fourth network.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Diller
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