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American businessman
Richard Cronin
is an American media consultant and former
cable television
executive.
In 2007, he started a Los Angeles-based consultancy,
[1]
after serving for six years, since May 2001, as president and chief executive of GSN, the
Game Show Network
.
[2]
Prior to this, beginning 1 July 1998 he was president and chief executive of
Fox Kids Network
and
Fox Family Channel
. He led these networks following a New York Supreme Court ruling that he could not take up the new positions until his contract expired with
Viacom
's MTV Networks, where he was president of
TV Land
. He had left as president of TV Land in October 1997, after signing with the
Saban Entertainment
and
News Corporation
Fox venture.
[3]
Prior to launching TV Land, Cronin was Senior Vice President and General Manager of
Nick at Nite
, and Senior Vice President of Marketing for
Nickelodeon
.
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