Bonnie Hammer got her earliest lessons in leadership while pacing around a talk show set at Wcvb-tv Boston in the early 1980s. The executive, who is now vice chairman of NBCUniversal, was promoted to produce the station’s “Good Day” morning show six months after she joined Wcvb as a coordinating producer. It was her first big move up the ladder in the TV business. It would not be her last.
“Doing morning talk was an interesting education,” Hammer recalls. “We could produce a four-minute segment on anything in the world.”
Hammer’s career path eventually would lead her out of Boston and local TV into the “wild, wild West” of cable, where she was destined to rise to prominence as one of the industry’s most accomplished and respected executives. In recognition of her track record as an innovator, leader and mentor, Variety is presenting its inaugural TV Legacy...
“Doing morning talk was an interesting education,” Hammer recalls. “We could produce a four-minute segment on anything in the world.”
Hammer’s career path eventually would lead her out of Boston and local TV into the “wild, wild West” of cable, where she was destined to rise to prominence as one of the industry’s most accomplished and respected executives. In recognition of her track record as an innovator, leader and mentor, Variety is presenting its inaugural TV Legacy...
- 6/9/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
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