Redrawing USA map: after 14 months, it's about time Herzog drives cable net faster. (Top of the Week).(Doug Herzog must make things happen since passing the one year mark as president of USA Networks)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Broadcasting & Cable,  May, 2002  by Romano, Allison

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It takes at least a year for a new network president to stamp a schedule and claim--or be blamed for--the results. After 14 months on the job, USA Network President Doug Herzog must know, as USA launches a slate of new originals and specials for summer, that it's time to put up or shut up.

"We didn't have anything to talk about for a long time, and now we do," said Herzog, the creative force at USA since his former boss, USA Cable President Stephen Chao, stepped down last fall. "Original programming is not an elective."

Herzog wants to change the cable ...

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