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Billionaires eyeing Marlinsarlins buy for cchildren
THE billionaire fathers lining up to buy the Miami Marlins baseball team want to nab the team for their children, our Josh Kosman reports.
After all, the Marlins only lose about $50 million a year and will cost more than $1 billion.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is looking to put his son Tagg in the front office should he acquire the Marlins. Tagg is a former chief marketing director for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
And former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is working with his son Jeb Bush Jr. to buy the team along with co-investor Derek Jeter. The two Bushes were walking the halls together last week at the Milken Institute Conference.
The Post reported exclusively last week that Hostess chief Dean Metropoulos is also interested in the Marlins for his sons, Daren and Evan.
Allegiance
On Thursday night, CBS chief Les Moonves performed his now-legendary goosing of the TV upfront market. Moonves always sets expectations high and puts the fear of God into marketers by telling them ad rates are going up by high single-digit percentages.
Moonves admitted on last week’s CBS earnings call that he might sound a bit like President Trump, but noted the ad market was “exceedingly strong.”
As Moonves was speaking, YouTube, which is aiming to steal TV network ad dollars, was across town putting the finishes touches on its “Brandcast” party for advertisers.
Surprisingly, YouTube’s event was emceed by none other than the Tiffany network’s own late-night star James Corden, who yukked it up with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Katy Perry and comedian Kevin Hart at a spare-no-expense party.
Corden, of course, is a viral hit-maker. His “Carpool Karaoke” is must-see TV and his YouTube channel has 10.20.2 million follow-followers.
No word on whether Corden will also be hosting CBS’ annuall dog-and-pony show at Carnegie Hall onon MayMay 17.
Film money
Bruce Tuchman, whoho ran global channel operations for both AMC and MGM, is currently out talk-talking to financial investors.rs. Tuchman is the brotherr of CNN journalistournalist Gary Tuchman and is putting to-together aa group of backerss for a new global subscrip-subscription videodeo service set to launchaunch in 2018. The international executiveutive is on the board of iFlix, a Netflix-tflix-style service headquartered in Malaysia. Iflix is backed by Sky andnd Liberty Global.
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Genevieve Piturro feltelt that something was missing inn her life. In 1999, the successful marketingarketing executive began volunteeringering at New York City homelesss shelters for families including thoseose es-escaping domestic abuse.
She was struck by howwtheythey went to sleep in their “streetreet clothes,” without proper paja-pajamas, and without being tucked in with a proper “good night.”
In a few short years, Piturro gave up her career to launch Pajama Program, a national non-n- profit dedicated to help-ing homeless children. At her galagala, held on May 4, the group announced thatth it had distributed 2,855,522 paipairs of pajamas and 2,159,315 books since its launch 16 years ago. This year’s budget is $3.56 million, Jennifer GoGould Keil reports. Corporaterate sponsors were children’s clothier Carter’s and ScholasticSc Reading Club. Celebrity supsupporters included TV host and chef Carla Hall (pictured), NBC NNews’ Meredith Vieira and tthe wives of New York Mets players, who also read to the kkids.
Horse set
A renovated Adelphi Hotel will be ready for this summer’s horhorse season in Saratoga SpringsSpr following a $34 millionlion restoration that denied “regulars”reg their Victorian lodginglod for 3 ¹ /2 years, accordinging to our Richard Morgan. TheT 140-year-old Adelphi is the lastl surviving hotel of Saratogatoga Springs’ “golden age” — a time when Commodore Corneliuslius Vanderbilt,V not to mention the restr of America’s elite, retreatedtreat there to beat the summermer heat. “TheT property was filled with family jewels,” said Toby Mildé,Mil whose Richbell Capital boughtboug the hotel for $4.5 millionlion in 2012. ThThen, to get a feel for the place,plac Mildé’s reconstruction crew ran the hotel “as is” for a yeaMyear. Mildé’s restored inn inclucludes at least one piece of orm originalmoire, chair, furniture couch or — mirarroror — in every renovated rroom.