Mining Warner's library

摘要

Conventional wisdom has it that you have to move along to get ahead in the corporate world. But don't tell that to Eric Frankel, president, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution (WBDCD). He has been with one division of one corporation his entire 22-year career. He started as a publicist. Now he runs it. One of the first letters Frankel wrote after graduating from college in 1979 was to Ed Bleier, the Warner Bros, executive who had the job of selling movies to the broadcast networks and the fledgling cable industry. In some respects, the two were kindred spirits: Both had gone to Syracuse University, and both had an entrepreneurial outlook at an early age. Frankel, for his part, had been the college concert booker/promoter and figured out ways to put on 35 concerts a year on a $50,000 budget. Finding sponsors helped a lot, he recalls. He also worked at a local radio station and sold cable TV door to door.