Network President Plans to Restore ABC’s Happier Days

Susan Lyne, the new president of ABC entertainment, was in a

cheery mood. It was Monday, Jan. 28, and Ms. Lyne, 51, was sitting in her airy

office on West 66th Street, mulling over ratings for the previous night’s debut

of Rose Red , a new Stephen King miniseries.

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Bob Iger Rules TV … With Help From Regis

Bob Iger, the handsome, gleaming, departing head of ABC, sat at a center table in the vast Waldorf-Astoria’s Grand Ballroom on Feb. 10 as Regis Philbin, in a double-breasted, charcoal-gray pinstripe suit, began pelting the air with insults directed at the new president of the Walt Disney Company.

Why did he get the appointment?

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