Former Warner Bros. PR Exec Barbara Brogliatti Dies at 69

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Barbara Brogliatti, a long-time entertainment industry public relations executive, died Sunday following a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 69.

Brogliatti was executive VP and chief communications officer at Warner Bros. when she retired in 2005. She had been with Warner Bros. since 1993, when Warner Bros. merged with Lorimar where she’d been since 1990.

For a brief period, she ran her own public relations and marketing firm and represented clients including Norman Lear, Haim Saban, Jean Stapleton, Barbara Walters and DIC Animation.

Brogliatti began her career as an assistant in the publicity department at CBS fresh out of UCLA, and was hired by Norman Lear to head public relations for his companies.

Over the course of her career, she worked on TV shows including All in the Family, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dallas, Full House, Friends and E.R.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.