Lucille "Lucie" Salhany (Arabic: لوسي صالحاني; born May 25, 1946)[1] is an American media executive of Jordanian and Lebanese Heritage.
[13] Salhany attended Kent State University but after dropping out at age 19, she did not continue her education after more than a year.
[4] In 1967, Salhany got a job as a secretary to the Program Manager at an independent TV station in Cleveland called WKBF-TV.
Salhany was responsible for bringing then local Chicago talk-show host, Oprah Winfrey to Taft in a syndication deal.
In 1991, former Paramount colleague and newly hired FOX Broadcasting CEO Barry Diller asked Salhany to become Chairman of Twentieth Television.
[4] Although Salhany took the network from four nights of programming to seven nights of programming, and was responsible for creating the TV show, The X-Files, which was very successful, and brought the NFL to the network,[18] she left after three and a half years on her five-year contract, saying that Murdoch breached terms of her contract by not maintaining reporting structure.
“I don’t want to be one of those people who look back and say ‘do you remember the good old days?’"”[22] From 1999 to 2002: Salhany was President/Chief Executive Officer of LifeFX Networks, Inc., a publicly held company that developed and patented technologies that create virtual human “stand-ins" as well as “Facemail,” which allows users to send email with a virtual face and voice.
Salhany joined the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Board of Directors in January 2002, in connection with the acquisition of Compaq Computer Corporation.