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Chuck Saftler, Top TV Acquisition Executive & FX Veteran, Leaving Disney After 32 Years

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EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Saftler, one of the biggest names in TV acquisitions and who helped build FX Networks, is leaving Disney after a 32-year tenure that dates to pre-Disney-merger FX, which he joined in December 1993 as director of scheduling, seven mon…

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