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• Bill Josey, General Counsel & Vice President, Business Affairs

  Thursday, Aug 9, 2007 2:22PM / Standard Entry / Members only
  

  Bill Josey has been a business and legal executive in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years. Prior to joining TOKYOPOP, Bill served as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at Fox Television Studios, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group, where his responsibilities included negotiation of rights, license, and co-production agreements for Fox World Productions, the international co-production and format licensing unit of Fox TV Studios, and rights, talent, and network license agreements for Fox TV Studio's television movie and reality program production units. Before joining Fox Television Studios, Bill co-founded and served as CEO of The Hollywood Experts Online, an e-learning Internet venture focused on the movie and television industry.
  
  From 1991-1998, Bill served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, General Counsel, and a corporate officer of Saban Entertainment, creators of the billion dollar "Power Rangers" franchise, and Saban Entertainment's successor, Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., which combined Fox Children's Network, Fox Family Channel, Saban Entertainment, and many children- and family-oriented cable program services around the world. His responsibilities at Saban/Fox Family Worldwide spanned all of the company's diverse business activities, from television and feature production to distribution, merchandising and licensing, and broadcast operations. Prior to joining Saban, Bill was Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and Syndicated Programming at MGM/UA. During his Hollywood career, Bill also has held other senior business and legal affairs positions in the entertainment industry.
  
  During the mid-1970s, Bill was Assistant Professor of Broadcast and Film Communications at The University of Alabama, where he taught mass media law and radio-TV-film production and management courses.
  
  Bill began his entertainment industry career in 1964, while an undergraduate at the University of Texas, as a disc jockey and program director at an Austin, Texas, radio station. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-TV-Film from U.T. in 1970 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston Bates College of Law in 1973. He is admitted to practice law in Texas and California.

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