Rich Cronin (executive)
{{Short description|American businessman}}
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Richard Cronin is an American media consultant and former cable television executive. In 2007, he started a Los Angeles-based consultancy,{{cite web|title=Rich Cronin, A Los Angeles Media Consultant|url=http://richcroninlosangeles.com|access-date=14 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422142212/http://richcroninlosangeles.com/|archive-date=22 April 2013}} Cronin Industries, after serving six years, since May 2001, as president and chief executive of GSN, the Game Show Network.{{Cite news | last = Hoefmeister | first = Sallie | title = New President Named at Game Show Network | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = 3 May 2001 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-03-fi-58737-story.html | access-date = 2 April 2011}}
Career
Beginning on 1 July 1998, Cronin was president and chief executive of Fox Kids Network and Fox Family Channel. He left the company in 2000.{{Cite web |last=Mosspublished |first=Linda |date=2000-05-29 |title=Fox Family Prepares For Life After Cronin |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/fox-family-prepares-life-after-cronin-148871 |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Multichannel News |language=en}} Cronin led these networks following a New York Supreme Court ruling that he could not take up the new positions until his contract expired with Viacom's MTV Networks, where he was president of TV Land.
He left as president of TV Land in October 1997 after signing with the Saban Entertainment and News Corporation Fox venture.{{Cite news | last = Matzer | first = Marla | title = Ex-Viacom Exec Must Wait to Start Fox Jobs | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = 5 February 1998 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-05-fi-15667-story.html | access-date = 2 April 2011}} Before launching TV Land, Cronin was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nick at Nite and Senior Vice President of Marketing for Nickelodeon.
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