Seth MacFarlane to Deliver Promax/BDA Keynote

Promotion and Graphics Group to Welcome Creator of Fox’s Family Guy , American Dad

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/21/2008 10:30:00 AM

Seth MacFarlane, creator of one-half of Fox's Sunday-night animated lineup -- Family Guy and American Dad -- will deliver the keynote speech at the Promax/BDA conference in New York.

In addition to creating Family Guy, which was Fox's top-rated show Sunday night, McFarlane has won an Emmy Award for voicing the Stewie character on the show and is working on a Family Guy spinoff based on the Cleveland Brown character.

The annual get-together for the promotion and graphics folks will be at the Hilton Hotel in New York June 17-19.

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