Accolade winners: celebrating the individuals and programs that promote diversity and inspire others to reach new heights of achievement.(Laureen Ong is the Women in Cable and Telecommunication's 2005 Woman of the Year)
Multichannel News, November, 2005 by Grossman, Andrew
Laureen Ong may have been one of the few people who believed that the hard-driving News Corp. and the gentle National Geographic Society could co-exist in running a cable network.
She was also one of the few who could make it happen, to hear some people tell it. "They wanted to be our partner, but were nervous about being our partner," Anthea Disney, executive chairman of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. and a board member of the National Geographic Channel, says of News Corp. executives. "She had to constantly win them over to understand she was on their side."
Ong, the Women in Cable and Telecommunication's 2005 Woman of the Year, has led the channel as president for five years, driving its distribution into 56 million homes--many on...
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