Missing from that core lineup was Sony's once-formidable television business, which trails the South Korean manufacturers Samsung and LG and has lost money for the last eight years.
With the acquisition of ProSiebenSat.1, Germany's biggest private TV company, Springer is set to become a formidable force in television, too.
His mandate is to make the streaming service's original film lineup as formidable as its television operation, which received 112 Emmy nominations this year, the most of any network.
Then rocket around the multiple fan-driven sites, but don't miss the competing ideologies at battlestargalactica.com, battlestarforum.com and the "Battlestar" board at the formidable Web site Television Without Pity.
Mr. Russert had lifted "Meet the Press" to a long period of dominance among the Sunday morning shows, establishing himself in the process as perhaps the most formidable interviewer on television.
Rather than relying on formidable movie and television presidents to run their respective businesses, which has long been Warner's practice, Kevin Tsujihara, the studio's recently appointed chief executive, has shifted to lines of reporting that promise a more hands-on approach — by him.
In the 1960s, Bryant also acquired a formidable reputation in television: he played lead roles in a mammoth adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Roads To Freedom (BBC2, 1972), and in John Hopkins' Talking To A Stranger (BBC1, 1966), which scrutinised a riven family from four perspectives.
Tapped to step in for and then replace Brian Williams last year after the dethroned NBC news anchor was caught choosing self-promotion over the truth, Holt, as moderator of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, now has an even more formidable task: Return television coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign to something approaching sanity.
Sumner Redstone of Viacom, one of the three leaders of communications companies who were… ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS about Herbert Granath, a formidable figure in worldwide television and theatrical production--as chairman of ESPN, as co-chairman of two other cable networks,… ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS about KMEL's "Street Soldiers" radio program in San Francisco.
Companies trying to translate Internet successes onto television have faced formidable hurdles in the past.
