But Diller believed strongly in the concept, and so took his fourth-network idea with him when he moved to 20th Century Fox in 1984, where Fox's then freshly installed proprietor, Rupert Murdoch was a more interested listener.

In 1984 Davis appointed Barry Diller, formally Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, to the Chairman and CEO role at 20th Century Fox.

Waylon Smithers was partly based on how numerous Fox executives and staff members acted towards Barry Diller.

Waylon Smithers was partly based on how numerous Fox executives and staff members acted towards Barry Diller.

Paramount bought one more TV station in 1993: WKBD-TV in Detroit, Michigan ( the same state where the conglomerate got its start ), at the time an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company ( which was headed by Barry Diller, who had proposed a " fourth network " while working for Paramount, but could not convince the board ; Fox's owner, News Corporation, was, however, interested in starting a network ).

Furious at the breach of contract, Diller pulled DuckTales from all other Fox owned-and-operated stations in the fall of 1989.

Diller also encouraged Fox affiliates to do the same, though most did not initially.

Banks would not provide any extension to the loan, and Diller pressed Davis for the new equity he had promised to put into Fox.

Barry Charles Diller ( born February 2, 1942 ) is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC / InterActiveCorp and the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting.

Diller worked with Stephen Chao at Fox Television, whom he later hired as President of Programming and Marketing at USA Network.

The Chairman and Senior Executive is Barry Diller, who was previously head of Paramount Pictures, Fox Broadcasting and USA Broadcasting.

Smith was hired by Fox Broadcasting Company heads Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch to develop a talk show with Roger Ailes as her producer.

In 1986, Barry Diller, Jamie Kellner and Rupert Murdoch tapped the then 28-year-old Ancier to be the founding Entertainment President for the new Fox Broadcasting Company, where he put 21 Jump Street, Married with Children, The Simpsons and In Living Color on the air.

Along with this acquisition, Diller also purchased the rights to the USA Network from the Bronfman family.

Diller claims that Davis stalled and suggested that Diller call Michael Milken for a $ 250 million junk-bond loan, which would have been Diller's, not Davis ', responsibility.

Diller was " the highest-paid executive 2005 fiscal year " according to a report by The New York Times on Thursday, October 26, 2006 with a total compensation package in excess of $ 295 million.

Supported by The Diller – von Fürstenberg Family Foundation, recipients are each granted $ 50, 000 to further their work.

In 2011, The Diller – von Fürstenberg Family Foundation made a $ 20 million commitment to the High Line, which is the largest single private contribution to a public park in New York City ’ s history.

The Diller – von Fürstenberg family has donated a total of $ 35 million to the High Line to date.

# Diller, Nebraska – $ 20, 759

In 2001, the remaining entertainment units of USA Broadcasting Inc., were sold to Vivendi Universal, along with $ 10. 3 billion worth of shares held by Barry Diller.

The 23 centers in Vietnam and Thailand served as many as a million service members a month, and the USO presented more than 5, 000 performances during the Vietnam War featuring stars such as John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Sammy Davis Jr., Phyllis Diller, Martha Raye, Joey Heatherton, Wayne Newton, Jayne Mansfield, Redd Foxx, Rosey Grier, Anita Bryant, Nancy Sinatra, Jimmy Boyd, Lola Falana, and Bob Hope.

According to Anthony Van Nostrand Diller, possibly eight million speakers of Assamese can claim genetic descent from the Ahomese.

In 1997, Viacom sold its stake in USA Networks to Universal, who spun off all its television assets to Barry Diller the next year.

Diller resigned from QVC in 1995.

Due to Home Shopping getting more notoriety on the cable networks from his former dealings with the QVC Network, Diller sought to repurpose the broadcast stations into independent, locally-run stations as part of a station group dubbed USA Broadcasting of which the flagship station was WAMI-TV in Miami Beach, Florida.

This may have been due in no small part to the fact that then-Disney chief operating officer Michael Eisner and his then-Fox counterpart, Barry Diller, had worked together at the ABC network and at Paramount Pictures.

He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President at the same time Diller went to work for him in 1964, taking him on to New York, and Diller was soon placed in charge of negotiating broadcast rights to feature films.

In reference to the dish barbecued dog in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, the authors explain that it was " a snack which produced a mixed reaction among the representatives of an industry that had given the world Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Phyllis Diller, and Muki the Wonder Hound.

By 1976, a new, television-trained team was in place headed by Barry Diller and his " Killer-Dillers ", as they were called by admirers or " Dillettes " as they were called by detractors.

And a fourth research building, designed by Rafael Viñoly and named the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, opened in June 2009.

** Phyllis Diller, American comedian ( d. 2012 )

The buildings will be designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

A large scale use of cold water fog is the Blur Building ( 2002 ), an exhibition pavilion built for Swiss Expo. 02 on Lake Neuchatel by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

In the first season the narrator was usually voiced by John Lovelady, but Jerry Nelson performed the role in both the Harvey Korman and Rita Moreno episodes, before taking over the role permanently from the Phyllis Diller episode.

** Phyllis Diller, American comedian ( b. 1917 )

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In 2000, CBC and Power Broadcasting sold these channels to Barry Diller ’ s USA Networks.

Diller ’ s company was later acquired by Vivendi Universal, which in turn was partially acquired by NBC to form NBC Universal.

Seagrams / Universal subsequently sold the networks to Barry Diller.

Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, Shelley Berman, Phyllis Diller, and Bob Newhart.

The Advisory Committee members for the first three-city cycle of the project are: Daniel Barenboim, Elizabeth Diller, Nicholas Humphrey, Muchadeyi Masunda, Enrique Peñalosa, Juliet Schor, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Wang Shi.

Diller is a village in Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States.

Diller is located at ( 40. 108717 ,-96. 937840 ).

Among other physicians who were in practice during the first half of the century were Dr. Lorenzo D. Streeter, Dr. Thomas Browning, Dr. Diller, Dr. Nicholas B. Harris and Dr. Alexander H. Hull.