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'IVho^s Who^ on syndication executives
president of ITC, whose firm has set a pace m developing coproductions and imports from England for the U.S. market, along with a large catalog of ITC properties; Robert Seidelman, director of syndication sales for Screen Gems, pioneer large-scale syndicator among distribution offshoots of movie majors and a prime force in developing regional and nationallevel sales to clients.
Joseph Kotler, vice president of Warner Bros. Television, who recently warned stations bluntly that they would have more first-run product when they indicated "a willingness to invest considerably higher dollars than they are now paying for off-network shows."
Lou Friedland, vice president and director of syndication, and Hal Golden, vice president and director of sales of MCA TV, Ltd., a firm which grossed so well in distributing the Paramount pre1948 backlog that most movie companies today retain their own syndication rights.
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AI Brodax, director of tv. King Features, which has specialized successfully in children's programing; Edward H. Benedict, national sales director of Triangle Programs, an offshoot of Triangle station group which has largest groupproduced catalog of syndicated shows.
M. J. (Bud) Rifkin, executive vice president, sales. United Artists Tv. A veteran syndication sales executive — he once headed the sales force for Ziv Tv, then the largest sales operation in the industry — Rifkin is also involved in network level sales.
Other key United Artists television executives include Erwin H. Ezzes, executive vice president. United Artists Associated, which handles huge catalog (pre1948 Warner Bros., plus more recent UA films, cartoons, shorts, etc.) of feature and other film product; Pierre Weis, vice president and general manager, syndication division, UATV, whose division handles offnetwork reruns, made-for-syndica
tion product and other syndication releases.
Richard Dinsmore, vice president and general manager, Desilu Sales, Inc., a company which began its syndication career as a channel for Desilu-filmed reruns but has added first-run shows and features as well; Stanley E. Dudelson, vice president in charge of distribution, American International Tv, a relatively recent syndicator which specializes in action-adventure and "exploitation" pictures.
Len Firestone, vice president and general manager, Four Star Distribution Corp. A onetime top sales executive of Ziv Tv specializing in big regional sales, Firestone's present forte is handling late-model offnetwork reruns and action features; Seymour Reed, president of Official Films, which has lately been specializing in first-run documentary and biographical series; Dan Wise, executive vice president of Philadelphia's Tel Ra Productions, now in its 1 6th year of syndicating sports films (pro football, etc.). ♦
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