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Gregg Willingergregg.jpg (9934 bytes)radwavinganim2.gif (5422 bytes)logoin.gif (2249 bytes)The company received a great boost in 1992 when, searching for a lean, hungry, ambitious, good negotiator with an eye for talent and good people skills, it attracted a 29-year-old lawyer named Gregg Willinger.Within three years he was Vice President and a director of the company and a year after that became a partner.His clients do not do badly either.He found a young lady in Green Bay, Wisconsin (70th market) and catapulted her to news anchor at an O&O in New York (the Number One market.) Right after that he found a gal in Manchester, New Hampshire and zoomed her into CBS Network News! Not much later he discovered a young man still in college whom he brought to Raleigh, North Carolina and then to a national technology news program.He also generated a coup at a small cable shop on Long Island, taking five people out : three to broadcast stations in New York City, one to anchor at MSNBC and a freelance sports person to weeknight sports anchor in Hartford.And so it went...until today he is nationally recognized as one of the most effective, aggressive, impassioned agents in the industry : admired, trusted and respected by station management and cherished by his clients.
Born and raised in New Rochelle, New York, an honor graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton with a B.A. in Political Science, he went on to acquire a Juris Doctor degree at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where he served on the Moot Court Board and was Captain of the basketball team.In his third year of law school he worked full time in the Agent Training Program at the William Morris Agency as had Barry Diller, Michael Ovitz, David Geffen and other giants of the entertainment industry before him.It was there that he decided to pursue a career as a talent agent.
A member of the New York and Connecticut Bars, Gregg had been a litigation and entertainment lawyer for five years before joining the company.He conducted many bench and jury trials and appeared before several appellate courts.He has been much sought after to serve on panels for the NABJ, AAJA, and NAHJ organizations and is immensely proud of being the only agent in the country to play in the annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament sponsored by the NABJ.His team won the tournament in 1997.
Gregg lives on the North Shore of Long Island with his wife of ten years, Jill, and their three boys, Max, Sam and Jake who can already be caught in front of the mirror pretending to anchor the evening news.
E-mail Gregg at GAW@tvnewsagent.com
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