| Website | wsager.googlepage... |
| Blog | williamsager.com |
| Birthplace | New York City, NY |
| Birthdate | 7/11/55 |
| University of Wisconsin- Madison, B of A | 1978 |
| Communications Law, Radio TV and Film |
William resides in Los Angeles, California with his family. He is seriel entreprenuer and a content/media consultant for start-up’s and established multimedia companies.
William Sager provides both representation and strategic media services to large and small corporations with his partner at ‘The Agency’ - www.agency4dm.com.
Some of their clients include; Gidgetworldwide.com, Mobad Games, LionsGate Digital, BigStage.com, blinkx, The BBC, MyNetworkTV and NightFlight, LLC among others. He is also a contributor and member of the Forbes.com Business and Financial Network. William’s executive Fortune 500 experience as well as an intimate knowledge of software and technology (including web servers, hosting, IP traffic and social media apps were drawn from experience at companies such as idealab!, MCI/Verizon, MGM/UA, and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable.
William served as co-founder and President for iWatchNow Inc. for nearly four years, a service that made available over 3,000 classic films and popular TV shows and was the second largest online selection of movies after iTunes and Netflix.
William began his career in the cable TV business at the infamous Z Channel working with Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, and advanced to a role in senior management as the company tried launch the service nationally. He launched one of the cable industries first pay-per-view satellite mainstream movie services called ‘The People’s Choice’. William moved to Los Angeles and joined MGM/UA, where he was placed in charge of the TV Division. He was Executive in Charge of Production for 26 episodes (two seasons) of ‘Sid and Marty Krofft’s ‘DC Follies’ (creators of Universal’s ‘Land of the Lost’).
In late 1997, and he was recruited to work at the most successful of all the internet incubator’s, idealab! At HomePage.com he was instrumental in closing B2B deals totaling over three million dollars with clients including AOL, Fox, AltaVista, Pioneer, Discovery Channel, About.com, BET, and Qwest. HomePage was one of the most successful of all idealab! companies, boasting over 25 content partners and serving over 60 million impressions per month with 2 million + users and was eventually purchased by Marc Andreessens’s Opsware (a division of Hewlett Packard ). William spent several years after this at Verizon/MCI where he sold the companies’ largest entertainment hosting contract to Vivendi/Universal and MP3.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts in Radio, TV and Film and a minor in Communications Law in 1977
William blogs on some of his favorite subjects here: http://williamsager.com.
SHORTER VERSION:
William Sager provides both representation and strategic media services to large and small corporations with his partner at ‘The Agency’ (http://www.agency4dm.com/). Some of their clients include; Gidgetworldwide.com, Mobad Games, LionsGate Digital, BigStage.com, blinkx, The BBC, MyNetworkTV and NightFlight, LLC among others. He is also a contributor and member of the Forbes.com Business and Financial Network. William’s executive Fortune 500 experience as well as an intimate knowledge of software and technology (including web servers, hosting, IP traffic and social media apps were drawn from experience at companies such as idealab!, MCI/Verizon, MGM/UA, and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable.
William served as co-founder and President for iWatchNow Inc. for nearly four years, a service that made available over 3,000 classic films and popular TV shows and was the second largest online selection of movies after iTunes and Netflix.
William began his career in the cable TV business at the infamous Z Channel and launched one of the cable industries first pay-per-view satellite mainstream movie services called ‘The People’s Choice’. He joined MGM/UA, where he was placed in charge of the TV Division and produced 26 episodes (two seasons) of ‘Sid and Marty Krofft’s ‘DC Follies’.
In late 1997, and he was recruited to work at the most successful of all the internet incubator’s, idealab! At HomePage.com he was instrumental in closing B2B deals totaling over three million dollars with clients including AOL, Fox, AltaVista, Pioneer, Discovery Channel, About.com, BET, and Qwest. HomePage was eventually purchased by Marc Andreessens’s Opsware. William jumped over to Verizon/MCI where he managed the entertainment hosting contract to Vivendi/Universal and MP3.
A graduate of University of Wisconsin, Madison in Radio, TV and Film and a minor in Communications Law in 1977
William blogs on some of his favorite subjects here: http://williamsager.com.
