EIC's Dyak joins Bush initiative

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Entertainment Industries Council president and CEO Brian Dyak is representing
the entertainment industry in supporting the Bush administration's drug- and
alcohol-treatment initiative, Recovery Now.

Dyak attended a briefing at the White House last week hosted by John
Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

President George W. Bush said in his State of the Union address that the
administration is launching a three-year, $600 million initiative to combat drug
and alcohol addiction.

"The president's initiative is a bold step toward addressing a problem that
has plagued the Hollywood community," Dyak said. "Many Americans think addiction within our industry only affects celebrities. Addiction runs much
deeper than that, touching many who are behind the scenes of the entertainment
we all enjoy."

For 20 years, the EIC has been pushing the entertainment industry to touch on
health and social issues in its creative works.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.