Silverman Setting New NBC Agenda; Co-Chairman Looks to Turn Around Fourth-Place Network.(News)(National Broadcasting Company Inc. NBC Entertainment's Ben Silverman)(Interview)

TelevisionWeek, June, 2007 by Hibberd, James

Byline: James Hibberd One NBC staffer calls her new boss "the rock star.'' Producer Ben Silverman, with his flair for exuberant salesmanship and half-buttoned shirts, took the TV industry by storm last week in a whirlwind of executive upheaval at NBC. When the dust had settled, NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly was out; two other top executives (NBC Universal Television Studio President Angela Bromstad and drama development head Katherine Pope) were in career limbo; and the producer of "The Office'' was suddenly perched atop the NBC Entertainment hierarchy-named co-chair of NBC Entertainment and NUTS along with veteran executive Marc Graboff.

In a Q&A with TelevisionWeek, Mr. Silverman revealed his courtship was so insanely rapid that he was hired...

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