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Mediaweek 50

David Levy
President, Turner Advertising Sales, Turner Sports

As broadcasters struggled this year through the one-two punch of a scarcity of new programming and a concurrent ratings drop-off, this year's Mediaweek 50 No. 1 knew the time was right for a proactive...
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Alan Wurtzel
President, R & D, NBCU

With myriad channels for distributing content, Alan Wurtzel knew the industry needed a new metric that could measure the way viewers consume media.
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John Nesvig
Sales President, Fox Broadcasting

Nesvig has overseen Fox ad sales since the network's premiere in the late '80s and his innovative oversight has helped Fox take in more ad revenue each year.
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Rich Ross
President, Disney Channel Worldwide

The steward of Disney's global kids TV business, Ross oversees 67 network feeds, including 27 Disney Channels and nine Toon Disney channels, a lineup that reaches more than 600 million viewers across...
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Tim Armstrong
President, Ad/Commerce, NA, Google

Armstrong holds the keys to Google's digital kingdom, commanding Google's ad growth despite several quarters of lowered expectations on Wall Street and dogged sorties by competitors.
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Stephen McPherson
Entertainment President, ABC TV

McPherson is credited with adding a string of successful shows to ABC's schedule, some of which he developed previously at Disney-owned Touchstone Studios.
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Rino Scanzoni
CIO, GroupM/Chairman, Mediaedge:cia

In 2008 network sales executives still fussed and fretted over just how Scanzoni planned to negotiate more than $4 billion in TV ad dollars.
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Mediaweek Recognizes Innovative Advertising Agencies

Mediaweek magazine has developed an all-star list, focusing on the best and the brightest in the field of media advertising. The MW-50 recognizes the innovators behind today's most effective marketing strategies as well as the advertising agencies that regularly deliver above-average results.