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Media: Lifeline - Sci Fi Channel.
The satellite and cable broadcaster celebrates its tenth birthday this week.
1995: Universal Studios Networks, part of the media empire of Jean-Marie Messier (pictured), launches Sci Fi - the only channel dedicated to the genre - on cable and satellite in the UK. Three years later, Janet Goldsmith is appointed managing director.
2000: Martin Heaton Cooper becomes the sales director. The channel shows its commitment to indigenous production with the inauguration of Sci Fi Shorts. The annual script-writing initiative, created by Sci Fi and First Film Foundation, develops and produces high-quality short films for theatrical release in UCI cinemas nationwide.
2002: The channel begins to flirt with the racier end of the cult viewing spectrum, launching Headf**k, a youth-oriented series of bizarre, surreal and trippy music videos, animations and shorts - featuring none other than David Icke. The channel also buys The Dead Zone - the highest-rating US cable show ever.
2004: Following the merger of Universal with NBC to create the media conglomerate NBC Universal, Goldsmith departs and Sci ...
- Maitre dethroned; Vivendi Universal.(The resignation of Vivendi's Jean-Marie...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 6, 2002 700+ words
...back of him? Jean-Marie Messier's resignation may...But, after Jean-Marie Messier at last quit Vivendi...nickname J6M--Jean-Marie Messier, Moi-Meme, Maitre...and owns the USA and SCI-FI cable channels, Vivendi...
- Messier times ahead for Murdoch..(Jean-Marie Messier)(Rupert Murdoch)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Television Europe January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Entertainment VUE will include Universal Studios and USA Network Sci-Fi Channel and USA Studios assets Vivendi now owns 93% of USA...Commenting on his investments Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier effectively ruled out further major acquisitions in the near...
- Himself; Jean-Marie Messier.(books by and about ex-Vivendi CEO)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 14, 2003 700+ words
Where did it all go wrong? JEAN-MARIE MESSIER is the discredited former head of Vivendi...The man nicknamed J6M--Jean-Marie Messier, Moi-Meme, Maitre du Monde...says: "Did people really take Jean-Marie Messier seriously? No. But we're a cynical...
- Flying too high the fall of Jean-Marie Messier. (Business).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Europe Andrews, John September 1, 2002 700+ words
Jean-Marie Messier used to take a self-deprecating...Spelled out, the nickname was "Jean-Marie Messier, moimeme, maitre du monde...Vivendi Timeline 1994: Jean-Marie Messier is hired by Generale des Eaux, a...
- Touche; Jean-Marie Messier.(A hot French business book)("Mon Vrai...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 16, 2002 700+ words
A hot French business book JEAN-MARIE MESSIER, the disgraced former boss of Vivendi, has not disguised...his first autobiography, "j6m.com". (His six Ms? "Marie Messier, Moi-Meme, Maitre du Monde".) He noted that "the...
- Hungry for A Triumph.(CEO, Jean-Marie Messier, aims to turn Vivendi into world...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Miller, Karen Lowry Beith, Malcolm Francis, Antonia July 3, 2000 700+ words
Back home they're already treating Jean-Marie Messier as an honorary American -- a dubious honor in Paris...ambitions. The French press now calls him J6M: Jean-Marie Messier: moi-meme, Maitre du Monde (me-myself, master...
- Court Orders Following Motion Filed by Vivendi Universal Against Jean-Marie...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 12, 2003 700+ words
...million euros, all dues owed by the company to Mr. Jean-Marie Messier in the form of severance indemnities non-authorized by...secondly, to enter into proceedings against Messrs. Jean-Marie Messier and Eric Licoys, under a fast-track process of the Paris...
- Jean-Marie Messier stepped down as chairman and chief executive of Vivendi...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 6, 2002 700+ words
Business Jean-Marie Messier stepped down as chairman and chief executive of Vivendi Universal, the French media giant. But the move was not enough to satisfy...