Tom Werner (Best of, Part 2 of 2)

TOM WERNER IS ONE OF THE RAREST of COMMODOTIES—A championship EXECUTIVE WHO successfully COVERS THE SPECTRUM OF SPORTS AND TELEVISION LIKE NO one else in the world.  

in Television, he is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Producers Guild of America, and over the years, he and his partners have garnered 24 Emmys, 11 People’s Choice Awards, and numerous Golden Globe, Humanitas, and Peabody honors.

Throughout his illustrious career, Werner discovered such iconic stars as robin williams, Danny Devito, Andy Kaufman, Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, and Roseanne—just to name a few—and helped develop such hit series as “Taxi,” “Soap,” “Mork and Mindy,” “The Cosby Show,” “A Different World,” “Roseanne,” “Third Rock from the Sun,” “Cybill,” and “That ‘70s Show,” and years later, joined forces with Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey to start the Oxygen network.

In sports, he is the chairman of the Red Sox and along with his partners, have brought 3 world championships to Boston in the past decade, after an 86-YEAR drought.

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