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Article: Of Paramount importance.(Joel Berman, co-president, Paramount Domestic Television)(Fifth Estater)(Column)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- February 16, 1998
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Joel Berman could well be sitting behind the Entertainment Tonight anchor desk with Mary Hart, rather than supervising its sales and production.
When Berman, now co-president of Paramount Domestic Television, graduated from Ohio University in 1973, he was heading for a career in broadcast journalism.
He wound up as a one-man news department at a small radio station in Parsippany, N.J., reporting and producing five-minute newscasts on the hour. Berman lasted eight months before he realized that journalism was not the career path he had envisioned.
"Once I started doing it, I realized it was more performance and less journalism than I ...