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| occupation = Executive | salary = | website = }} Chris Albrecht (born July 24, 1952) is an American media executive. Albrecht is the CEO of Starz, which earlier became a separate legal entity following a spin-off from Liberty Media in January 2013. Albrecht is the former Chairman and CEO of HBO. He founded Foresee Entertainment, an independent content creation, development and distribution company, in 2008. Albrecht was the president of IMG Global Media and IMG Entertainment, subsidiaries of the IMG production company, from September 2007 until August 2008. Albrecht was also a Special Limited Partner in Forstmann Little & Company. ==Work history== Albrecht began performing at the Improv in New York city with his then-partner Bob Zmuda.〔Marc Maron, WTF with Marc Maron Podcast, Episode 339 - Budd Friedman, 20121129〕 He then became a manager at the club. He did so well that the Friedmans sold a portion of the business to him which he ran from 1975 to 1980. He was also a talent management consultant for ABC in New York City. Before joining HBO, Albrecht worked for five years with the firm International Creative Management (ICM), where he was instrumental in signing such talent as Jim Carrey, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. Albrecht began working at HBO in June 1985 as senior vice president, original programming, West Coast. Before becoming Chairman in 2002, he spent seven years as president of HBO Original Programming, where he directed day-to-day operations of West and East Coast original programming for HBO, Cinemax and HBO Independent Productions and also oversaw HBO Sports and HBO Film Programming. From 1990 to 1995, Albrecht was President of HBO Independent Productions and oversaw development and production of comedy series for distribution on HBO and the networks, including ''Martin'' and ''Everybody Loves Raymond''. Under his leadership, HBO became the leader in innovative entertainment and sports programming with critically acclaimed series like ''Sex and the City'', ''The Sopranos'', ''Six Feet Under'', ''Deadwood'', ''Band of Brothers'', ''The Wire'' and ''Entourage'' among many others. In September 2007, Albrecht signed a three-year deal with IMG in September to serve as head of IMG Global Media and a special limited partner in Forstmann Little & Company, the private equity firm headed by Ted Forstmann that owns IMG. Albrecht and Forstmann planned to raise a $250 million fund for investments in media and entertainment content. In a statement released by IMG on August 12, 2008, Albrecht’s departure was blamed on the firm’s inability to raise those funds.〔 On January 1, 2010 Albrecht joined Starz, LLC as its President and CEO. He will oversee all of the Starz entities, including Starz Entertainment, Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman. Starz, LLC, is a controlled subsidiary that operates Starz Media and Starz Entertainment. Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States with 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz and Encore brands with approximately 17.3 million and 30.7 million subscribers respectively.〔(PR Newswire 2009 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Albrecht」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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