Though he is the No. 2 executive at Comcast, Stephen Burke actually made more money than his boss Brian Roberts for the past two years, with his 2010 compensation topping out at $34.74 million. Mr. Burke was promoted to run Comcast’s recently acquired NBC Universal unit, so naturally he would need a crash pad closer to Read More
At the turn of the millennium, network executives like Oxygen’s Geraldine Laybourne and the WE channel’s Kate McEnroe were cheerleading the arrival of a new kind of “enlightened,” you-go-girl women’s television. In 1999, Paul Allen, Oprah Winfrey and AOL poured more than $300 million into Oxygen, which dissed Lifetime’s schmaltzy movies and promised intellectual pretension, Read More
It’s here. A fledgling women’s media empire is in the process of moving into 40,000 square feet of retrofitted office space (and digital TV studios) at 448 West 16th Street. Nabisco had a factory on this spot in the old days. In the next century, it may prove to be ground zero for the synergistic Read More
That Laybourne Girl
Emmy Laybourne took the stage with her younger brother, Sam. It was a benefit night at the Kitchen for the Center for Discovery, a camp for people with severe disabilities, and the audience wasn’t the usual alternative comedy crowd, but men in suits and women in cocktail dresses. A tape started playing Read More
