Ancier moves, shows won't.(incoming NBC Entertainment president Garth Ancier)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, May, 1999 by Schlosser, Joe

Incoming NBC programming chief wants fewer time-period shifts New NBC Entertainment President Garth Ancier is already working weekends. Ancier, who officially started on the job last Monday, came in a day earlier with soon-to-be NBC West Coast President Scott Sassa in an effort to get a jump on the network's fall schedule.

Ancier, who was formerly the president of entertainment at The WB, was under contract with his former network through Saturday, May 8. "We didn't have much time to waste," says Ancier, who today along with Sassa will present the network's fall lineup to ad executives in New York. "I gave my word to the Warner Bros. people that I wouldn't start until I was supposed to and I felt they had been so good about it that I couldn't...

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