The Top Ten Most Powerful Women in Television ( according to ADNEWS ) are:
(In Order from Left to right from images above)
Abbe Raven - CEO of A&E Networks
Bonnie Hammer- USA Networks
Anne Sweeny- CEO Disney -ABC
Debra Lee- BET
Lauren Zalaznick- NBCUniversal
Linda Yaccarino- Turner
Nancy Dubuc- A&E Networks
AdNews comments on the general style of the women who now are taking over the airwaves are significantly different from their male precedence. Unlike the boasting, arrogant, showy men that treated television as a 'lifestyle', these women run it for what it is, a business.
A list of 'to do's', which being a women studying the medium understand that sentiment exactly. There's little glamorous about the job, and when there is a slight bit of glamor attached, I could imagine it would be hard to enjoy, having to worry about who needs to be where and when, whether or not a story is in on time, whether or not a program is attracting enough viewers. And a million other things that can and will go wrong.
The change from men controlling the atmosphere to women in a lot of major networks, also coincides with the fact that most of the people watching television, aside from ESPN, are women. Rarely do I hear any of my male acquaintances contemplating how they are going to get home in time before there favorite show starts, nor do I hear them gossiping over the last nights episode of Teen Wolf, and how awesome it was. Actually I take that back, I have heard that one, but my point it, women are the undeniable major market demographic in television, and women know how women think. With that being said this was a change that was bound to happen.
It is an interesting fact however, that many have said, including myself, television "isn't as good as it used to be" and the quality of the content is suffereing. Does this have anything to do with the leadership of the estrogenized bosses? Or is this a completely different issue to blame entirely?
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