{"id":55,"date":"2004-03-26T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T01:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:09:33","slug":"jessies-new-boss-steven-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/26\/jessies-new-boss-steven-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie&#039;s New Boss: Steven King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a funny little story about Jessie&#8217;s new uber-boss:<\/p>\n<p>THE SKELETON&#8217;S IN STEVE KING&#8217;S CLOSET &#8211; Don&#8217;t expect newly anointed Zenith Optimedia chief Steve King to relocate the media buying giant&#8217;s worldwide headquarters to New York any time soon. In keeping with Zenith&#8217;s roots, the company will remain in London. But the Riff can&#8217;t help wondering if the reason has more to do with a horrible experience King had while working for Zenith in New York, than it does with any other real estate issues. It seems that during the mid-1990s when King served as COO of Zenith North America and was working in its Houston Street offices in Lower Manhattan, he would mistakenly receive mail from another Steve King. &#8220;Penguin Books, was in the same building, and at the time they were publishing some of Stephen King&#8217;s books,&#8221; recalls Zenith&#8217;s King. &#8220;Most of my mail when I was general manager and COO of Zenith came from strange people sending in the weirdest letters, like, &#8216;Would you like me to tell you my story about how I butchered my husband and have him buried in my basement?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a funny little story about Jessie&#8217;s new uber-boss: THE SKELETON&#8217;S IN STEVE KING&#8217;S CLOSET &#8211; Don&#8217;t expect newly anointed Zenith Optimedia chief Steve King to relocate the media buying giant&#8217;s worldwide headquarters to New York any time soon. In keeping with Zenith&#8217;s roots, the company will remain in London. But the Riff can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,255,608,660],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-ads","tag-funny","tag-stephenking","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}