From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

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from KCRW. I am joined by my fellow banterer, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim. So Michael, Kevin Riley, gone from Fox for some pause now. And there is a new head of the Fox

Broadcasting Network. His name is David Madden, really an industry veteran, not to be confused with

David Madden, the actor who was on the Partridge family. Right, exactly. This David Madden, I don't believe, sings. But so in this case, what's interesting about this is Gary Newman and Dana Walden came in as the chairman of Fox Entertainment, overseeing the studio and the network. And originally it didn't seem like they were going to bring in an entertainment president below them. But they've got a big job. And this is a huge job what they're now overseen.

Well, yes, to be clear, it's the Fox Broadcast Network, which brings you, you know, various shows,

Glee, New Girl, this, that, and the other thing. And the production, the studio that produces

television programming, some of it on Fox, some of it not such as modern family,

which they'd love to have on Fox, but it's ABCs, but produced by this Fox studio. So they're overseeing

all of that. Yeah, yeah. And the syndication arm also reports to them. They have a lot of things

reporting to them now. So it only made sense that they needed someone, a lieutenant, to really be in charge of the day-to-day at the network.

So David Madden, who is a loyal, trusted lieutenant who's been in charge of Fox TV studios for a number

of years now.

This is the production studio.

Production studio, which is one of sort of the mini arms underneath 20th that Gary and Dana have

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