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Article: THE INTANGIBLE ASSETS OF BARRY DILLER QVC CHIEF BRINGS SOMETHING SPECIAL TO PARAMOUNT BID
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 26, 1993
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Barry Diller could always spot a winner.
"Roots" became the most-watched television miniseries in history.
"Saturday Night Fever" helped save a movie studio. "Mork and
Mindy." "Raiders of the Lost Ark." "Cheers." "The Simpsons."
"Beverly Hills, 90210."
Master of the upscale and the lowbrow, Diller has been the grand
marshal of his own hit parade, scoring big successes at ABC
television, and reviving the sickly Paramount and Fox movie studios.
In a feat deemed too risky by other media moguls, he built the
nation's fourth television network, Fox Television.
For Diller, all this adds up to more than a resume.
It gives him a cachet that, according to friends and analysts,
adds a ...