Garth Ancier (born September 3, 1957 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is a media executive best known for being one of only two people (the other being Fred Silverman) to have programmed three of the five US broadcast television networks (Founding Programmer at Fox, Founding Programmer at The WB - now The CW, and NBC Entertainment).Ancier is also well known for being NBC executive to cancel the beloved 1999 teen drama-comedy "Freaks and Geeks".
Got his start in broadcasting when the then NBC head, Brandon Tartikoff (who is known for bringing the network back to prominence with hits such as The Cosby Show, Knight Rider, and The A-Team) heard about his student radio show at Princeton University via an article in People Magazine. He was then hired as Tartikoff's assistant.
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Currently the President & CEO of the Warner Bros (The WB) Television Network, replacing former network honcho Jordan Levin.
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Formerly the President of Entertainment at NBC (1999).
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Formerly head of programming when the FOX network first debuted in 1987. He reported to Barry Diller, who was the then head of Twentieth Century-Fox Studios.
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