Company Town : Warner Names Network Programming Chief

Warner Bros. has tapped former Fox and Disney TV executive Garth Ancier to head programming for its new fifth network, which is set to premiere early next year.

Ancier, who is teaming up with his former Fox boss and current WB Network President Jamie Kellner, will continue to produce the syndicated talk show “Ricki Lake” and divide his time between New York and Burbank.

Kellner has also recruited former Fox executives Bob Bibb and Lewis Goldstein to head advertising and on-air promotion. Both worked with Kellner and Ancier in the early days of the Fox network.

Ancier said he expects to be putting WB Network programming staff in place shortly after “Ricki Lake” finishes production in a couple of weeks. He said the new network will take a page from the launch of Fox and premiere with one night of programming in the spring or summer, increasing to two nights of programming by the fall of 1995.

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* Madeline Warren has been named vice president of production at New Regency Productions. Patrick Crowley has been named vice president of physical production.

Rob Wieland has been named vice president of post-production for Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures.

* Ted Zachary has been named executive vice president of production administration for New Line Cinema.

* MCA TV has named Georgia Scott vice president of station relations. Peter G. Hughes has been named executive vice president of MCA TV International.

* Carl D. Folta has been appointed vice president of corporate relations at Viacom. He was senior director of corporate communications at Paramount before Viacom bought the company.

* Television producer Paulette Douglas and Ken Pisani, Sports Illustrated managing art director of promotions, have joined Sports Illustrated Television as producers.