Race Of Your Own Larry Namer Founder & Creator of E! Entertainment S1E25

Race Of Your Own by Vergi Rodriguez

Episode notes

This weeks episode we sit down and have an in depth discussion with Larry Nemar Founder & Creator of E! Entertainment Television. After several years as a technician, he became the Vice Chairman of the Cable TV division of the Electrical Workers Union. By age 25, he became the Director of Operations at Manhattan Cable and a year later was given sales and marketing. In 1979, he became Director of Corporate Development and was charged with building businesses derived from non-entertainment uses of the cable TV systems. He was recruited to become VP/General Manager of Valley Cable TV in Los Angeles. Namer and his friend Alan Mruvka created a plan for a TV network, Movietime, that would eventually become E!Entertainment Television. The platform would give rise to shows such as Talk Soup and Fashion Police starring Joan Rivers. Namer and Mruvka ev ... 

 ...  Read more