gala 2004

Peter Liguori

Peter Liguori is President and Chief Executive Officer of FX Networks, responsible for all business and programming operations of FX and Fox Movie Channel. Liguori additionally oversees development and future entertainment specific Fox Cable Networks Group programming services, ranging from new cable networks to entertainment-oriented interactive vehicles.

Since taking over FX Networks in August 1998, Liguori has guided FX to all-time highs in viewership and subscriber growth. He set FX on an ambitious path by launching signature original series and original movies that have set a new standard for quality programming on basic cable.

As President and CEO of FX Networks, Peter Liguori plays a major role in the implementation of the FOX Entertainment Group’s Diversity Development. FOX has made a commitment to expanding diverse representation in front of and behind the camera. In doing so, the networks signed a Statement of Understanding with the NAACP and its multicultural coalition in terms of goals aimed to enforce this diversity. He serves on the Honorary Committee for the PRISM Awards, which recognizes the work of the entertainment industry in accurately depicting drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and addiction.

Mr. Liguori is one of five new inductees onto the Board of Trustees of the Entertainment Industries Council. The new appointees were chosen because they successfully demonstrate the wide spread efforts of the entertainment industry by using their power to proactively and actively address health and social issues.

Prior to joining Fox, Liguori was Vice President, Consumer Marketing at HBO, where his duties included the creation and implementation of marketing programs for all HBO Home Video product expansion and development of its programming line-up. Liguori also has experience in the feature film business as a producer of the well-known independent film Big Night. Prior to HBO, he worked at New York advertising agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi with such clients as Proctor & Gamble and Lever Brothers. Born and raised in the Bronx, Liguori earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University, graduating cum laude in 1982. He is married and has two children. He and his wife, Hannah, and their two children reside in Los Angeles.