MIAMI — Jeff Zucker didn’t mince words. “Nothing is as important than what I’m doing now,” the CNN Worldwide chief said of his long career in media as he was feted Wednesday night as one of five Br…
Zucker and Burke shared memories of working with the award’s namesake and the impact he had on their lives. Zucker recalled Tartikoff’s “pure kindness” after the former was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 31. Tartikoff had been through a similar experience and was quick to reach out to Zucker with support and counsel. Tartikoff died of cancer not long afterward, in 1997, at the age of 48.
Burke, who spent 15 years at NBC, remembered her days as a member of NBC’s “secretarial pool” before she was encouraged by then-NBC executive Warren Littlefield to skip law school and try for a programming job at the Peacock. Tartikoff impressed the junior executive with his eagerness to hear opinions and ideas from anyone in the room, not just the top brass.
Lockhart is the rare example of “a truly mature female character who is smart, articulate and authoritative,” Baranski said. “She’s powerful without being a bitch, feminine without being a victim, comfortable in a crowded conference room or alone in bed with her Republican husband…Who knew I was playing Nancy Pelosi?”
Santana said his life’s work has been to “elevate the quality fo Spanish-language television” and “to give Latinos produced by Hispanics for Hispanics.” He marveled at how hits like Telemundo’s “La Reina del Sur,” have taken the Spanish-language TV market from “a niche telenovela market to the television mainstream.”
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