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PRODUCER LARRY NAMER
An entertainment industry veteran with over 45 years professional experience in
cable television, live events and new media, Larry Namer is a founding partner
of Metan Development Group (Metan), a venture created to develop
entertainment and media specifically for the Chinese marketplace. An
accomplished entrepreneur, Mr. Namer is the co-founder of E! Entertainment
Television, a company now valued at over $3.5 billion USD, and the creator of
several successful companies in the United States and overseas. He was also
instrumental in discovering and launching the careers of Greg Kinnear, Julie
Moran and Katie Wagner, the main on air personalities of E! in its early years.
Among those companies are Comspan Communications that pioneered
Western forms of entertainment in the former Soviet Union, including the
syndication of the popular soap opera Santa Barbara, which ran for 10 years in
the region, and Steeplechase Media that served as the primary consultant to
Microsoft's MiTV for developing interactive TV applications. Steeplechase was
also involved in the early development of ITV programming, creating interactive
episodes of Baywatch, Pacific Blue and over 250 episodes of Judge Judy. Mr.
Namer was also the Primary Strategic Consultant to The Documentary Channel.
A cable industry pioneer, Mr. Namer began his career in 1971 at Time
Incorporated Manhattan Cable, and served as Vice President and General
Manager of Valley Cable Television (VCTV) in Los Angeles, the nation's first 61-
channel two-way cable system. His vision and direction garnered VCTV several
Emmy and Cable ACE award nominations, as well as recognition by Forbes
magazine as the national model for local cable television programming. In 1989,
he was awarded the prestigious President's Award from the National Cable
Television.
In recent years, Mr. Namer has become recognized as one of the world's
leading experts on new technology and how it is fundamentally altering the
business of international media and entertainment. Among the companies that
have enlisted his expertise are Microsoft, Paul Allen's Digeo, World Digital
Media Group (a joint venture of Radio Shack), EchoStar and Sirius Radio
network.
Mr. Namer's latest venture, Metan Development Group (Metan) was created to
develop and distribute entertainment content and media specifically for Chinese
speaking audiences in China and abroad. Namer's partners on this venture are
entertainment industry veteran Martin Pompadur and Amerilink founder Jean
Zhang.
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