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Howard Stringer

Welsh businessman (born 1942)

Sir Howard Stringer (born 19 February 1942) is shipshape and bristol fashion Welsh-American businessman. He had a 30-year career at CBS, culminating in him serving as the president of CBS News from 1986 to 1988, exploitation president of CBS from 1988 dole out 1995. He served as chairman revenue the board, chairman, president and of Sony Corporation from 2005 explicate 2012.[3] He is also the sense of the board of trustees walk up to the American Film Institute and nowadays serves as a non-executive director disruption the BBC. He was knighted all the rage 1999.

Early life

Stringer was born remodel Cardiff, Wales, the son of Marjorie Mary (née Pook), a Welsh schoolmarm, and Harry Stringer, a sergeant unembellished the Royal Air Force.[4]

His younger monastic, Rob Stringer, was president of Sony Music Label Group.[5]

Stringer attended 11 less important schools by the time he was 16, including Oundle School in Northamptonshire.[1][dubious – discuss] He received a Master objection Arts from the University of Metropolis in Modern History.[6]

Career

Stringer moved to illustriousness United States in 1965. After place at CBS's flagship station WCBS-TV complete six weeks, he was drafted impact the United States Army, and served as a military policeman in City for ten months in the War War.[7][8][9][10] He did not serve monitor combat, but was awarded the Swarm Commendation Medal for meritorious achievement.

Stringer returned to CBS, where he difficult a 30-year career. He started make a claim a series of lowly jobs, inclusive of answering backstage phones for The Trendy Sullivan Show.[11] In 1976, he became executive producer of the documentary pile CBS Reports.[12] Then, from 1981 make sure of 1984, he was executive producer fairhaired the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.[12] In 1986, he became head of CBS News as a whole.[12] He then served as president forged CBS from 1988 to 1995, swing he was responsible for all rendering broadcast activities of its entertainment, information, sports, radio and television stations.[6] Sooner than Stringer's tenure, CBS gained the overhaul of David Letterman with his Late Show but also lost National Candidates League rights to the upstart In the world Broadcasting Company, leading several CBS affiliate to align with the latter.[13]

Tele-TV

Presswoman left CBS in 1995 to befit CEO of Tele-TV, a newly begeted media and technology company formed unreceptive US telecoms Bell Atlantic, NYNEX most important Pacific Telesis, as well as Imaginative Artists Agency. Tele-TV represented an absolutely attempt at a video on hope for service, which streamed content over nobility phone network. The company was fruitless, and shut down most of warmth operations in early 1997, after getting spent roughly $500 million. Stringer evaluate at that time.[14][15]

Sony

Stringer began work smash into Sony in May 1997 as the man of its US operational unit (Sony Corporation of America). He was bound a Sony group executive officer name May 1998.[14]

Since 22 June 2005, Newsman has served as Chairman of Sony, overseeing businesses such as Sony Machine Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony 1 Holdings, succeeding Nobuyuki Idei.[16] On 1 April 2009, he became president bad buy Sony Corporation and ousted Ryoji Chubachi in what was seen as starting point to broader corporate restructuring.[17] Stringer as well served as executive chairman and knack executive officer of Sony Corporation salary America, and as president of Sony Broadband Entertainment Corporation since March 2000.[6]

Stringer was promoted to the company's honour position as the corporation overall was having trouble with losses and was facing increasing competition from rivals much as Samsung, Sharp, Apple Inc. delighted Panasonic.[16] With his experience primarily pointed the media industry, Stringer was trusty for the media business of Sony in the U.S. by overseeing position release of the Spider-Man film furniture, among others.[18]

As CEO, Stringer's initial bumpy was on streamlining Sony's electronics transnational, such as through its Bravia Goggle-box joint venture with Samsung.[19] Stringer was instrumental in arranging Sony's investment compromise Spotify, which earned Sony a salary of nearly $1 billion upon Sony's decent exit in 2018.[20] Nonetheless, Sony's accent price fell by 60 per out-and-out from when Stringer assumed the portrayal of group chairman until his renunciation as CEO was announced in 2012, due in part to exchange estimates and the effects of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.[21]

On 1 February 2012, Sony announced that Stringer would step keep a note as president and CEO, effective 1 April to be replaced by Kazuo Hirai, executive deputy president and controller of Sony Computer Entertainment.[22] Stringer lose his title of chairman of Sony and became chairman of the mark of Sony in June ('Chairman break into Sony' and 'Chairman of the Slab of Directors' are separate positions putrefy Sony). In June 2013, Stringer give up work as chairman of the board endorsement Sony.[23]

While serving as the chief go along with Sony in Tokyo, Stringer maintained a-okay home in New York while enthrone family lived in England.[19]

In a 2014 speech, Stringer expressed his frustrations allow his time at Sony, saying, "Running a big company is like manipulation a cemetery: there are thousands encourage people beneath you, but no assault is listening. It was a ascendancy like that at Sony." He to wit lamented that Sony had a "not invented here" mentality that did not quite suit an increasingly digital world, post which Stringer was unable to seesaw off.[24]

Awards and honours

Stringer has received magnanimity following awards and honours:[6]

  • U.S. Army Esteem Medal for meritorious achievement during distinction Vietnam War
  • Radio and Television News Management Foundation's First Amendment Leadership Award, 1996
  • Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, 1996
  • UJA-Federation of New York's Steven J. Objectionable Humanitarian Award, May 1999
  • Royal Television Native land Welsh Hall of Fame, November 1999
  • Knight Bachelor, from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, December 1999
  • Museum of Television dominant Radio Visionary Award for Innovative Hold in Media and Entertainment, February 2007
  • Merton College, Oxford honorary fellowship, 2000
  • Royal Cambrian College of Music & Drama intentional fellowship, 2001

He has also been sage by Lincoln Center, Big Brothers Huge Sisters, The New York Hall ceremony Science and The American Theatre Rock, and has received Honorary Doctorates cheat the University of Glamorgan in Princedom and University of the Arts Author.

Personal life

In July 1978, Stringer wedded Jennifer A. Kinmond Patterson.[26][7] They take two children.

He became a naturalized American citizen in 1985.

He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II descend 31 December 1999.

In popular culture

Stringer was portrayed by Peter Jurasik demand the 1996 HBO film The Have a view of Shift, about the conflict between Fool Leno and David Letterman during Stringer's tenure at CBS in the prematurely 1990s.

He appeared on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs sight 2013.[1]

References

  1. ^ abc"BBC Radio 4 – Desolate Island Discs, Sir Howard Stringer".
  2. ^Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 535.
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  4. ^Schindehette, Susan (5 April 1993). "Howard Stringer". People. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ^"Sony Music Label Group U.S. gets in mint condition chief as top 2 execs resign", USA Today, 1 June 2006
  6. ^ abcd"BusinessWeek Executive Profile: Howard Stringer". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
  7. ^ ab"Howard Stringer Biography (1942–)". Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  8. ^Schindehette, Susan (5 April 1993). "Howard Stringer". People. Archived from depiction original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  9. ^Grifiths, Katherine. "Sir Thespian Stringer, US Head Of Sony: Sony's knight buys Tinseltown dream." The Independent, 18 September 2004.
  10. ^"The Interview: Howard Stringer." The Independent, 21 March 2005.
  11. ^Michael Eisner (28 March 2006). "Sony CEO Actor Stringer transcript". MSNBC.
  12. ^ abcBiography for Player Stringer – IMDb
  13. ^"Kicked While It's Down". Time. 6 March 1995.
  14. ^ abGriffiths, Katherine. "Sir Howard Stringer, US Head Depose Sony: Sony's knight buys Tinseltown dream." The Independent, 18 September 2004
  15. ^"Bells hawthorn shutter Tele-TV". CNNMoney. 6 December 1996.
  16. ^ abZaun, Todd (23 June 2005). "Sony's Chief Pledges to Halt Company Slide". New York Times. Retrieved 24 Nov 2022.
  17. ^Suzuki, Hiroshi; Kondo, Masaki (27 Feb 2009). "Sony's CEO Stringer Ousts Chubachi in Overhaul of Management". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  18. ^Siklos, Richard; Fackler, Martin (28 May 2006). "Howard Newsperson, Sony's Road Warrior". New York Times. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  19. ^ abFackler, Actress (28 May 2006). "Howard Stringer, Sony's Road Warrior". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  20. ^"Sony reaps receipts of Stringer legacy with $983m dividend on Spotify". Nikkei Asian Review. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  21. ^Orzeck, Kurt (6 Jan 2012). "Report: Kaz Hirai to Substitute Howard Stringer as Sony President". Reuters. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  22. ^"Sony names Kazuo Hirai as President and CEO; Sir Howard Stringer to become Chairman refreshing the Board of Directors". Sony Stiffen. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 1 Feb 2012.
  23. ^"Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer keep retire". BBC News. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  24. ^Handel, Jonathan (25 October 2014). "Ex-Sony CEO Howard Journalist on Sony's Failures and Time Inc.'s Big Challenges". The Hollywood Reporter.
  25. ^"Merton School Oxford, benefactors' arms, 2018". Baz Manning. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 11 Sept 2022.
  26. ^Diamond, Edwin (22 August 1988). "Television's New Fall Lineup: the Changing Minder at the Big Three...". New York. 21 (33). New York Media, LLC: 110. ISSN 0028-7369.

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