6 May 2015 JKL Looking Back & Forward next to the studio’s nursery, where employees left their infants and, at times, found in him a helping hand with crying babies. With the CBS-Paramount merger, his office moved south to the lot’s tower and from there, with the split from Paramount, he relocated to CBS Television City in Beverly Hills. Though he is retiring fromCBSSI, JKLwill surely remain active in the industry. It’s hard to imagine a dynamic person like him spending his days on the golf course or fishing at the Santa Monica pier. Besides, with his offspring’s blossoming careers in the entertainment business (Maxwell is executive director of Global PR & Events at Lionsgate Worldwide Television Marketing, and Joey is a freelance Supervising Producer for unscripted television), and being financially secure, anyone with Lucas’s energy could very well start a new career, and with more intensity than when the WORLD CAB Taking A TV Ride Cable TV audience and advertising were the main focus at the gathering of the New York Citybased Cablevision Advertising Bureau (CAB) on March 4 at the A&A Media Leadership Conference in Hollywood, Florida. However, the hot topic was not cable TV, but online streaming services such asHulu, Amazon andNetflix. The former because they’re syphoning off ad revenues, while the latter is taking viewership away. According to some statistics, total cable TV viewing fell 10 percent from a year ago and 40 percent of that drop in ratings was attributed to streaming media. kids called their dad home for dinner. Examples abound, from Carsey-Werner’s Herb Lazarus, to WIN’s Bruce Gordon, to Sandy Frank, to 20th Century Fox’s Elie Wahba, to Pedro Simoncini, the founder of Argentina’s Telefe, who at 92 still drives himself to the office daily. And considering how many stars in the past and current TV season are over 60, it’s also possible that Lucas’s new career could even be “above the line,” in one of the next TV series. (Continued from Page 4) Joe Lucas and his wife Maxine in the ’70s
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