Stanley Moger

Stanley Moger produced, distributed and syndicated numerous television series, specials, mini-series and network programs, including Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, AFI's 100 Years Series (Movies, Stars, Laughs, Thrills, Passions, Heroes & Villains, Songs), AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards, The Flip Wilson Show, The Jerry Lewis Show, The Barbara Stanwyck Theater, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Cagney & Lacy features, The Joey Bishop Show, The Real McCoys, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Sea World/Busch Family Specials, Mobil Showcase Network, SFM Holiday Network, Inventionland, The Lost Kennedy Home Movies, The Dinah Shore Show, The Californians, Make Room for Daddy, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Death Valley Days, The March of Time, The Family Film Awards, Gift of the Magi, Walt Disney World's Very Merry Christmas Parade, Zoobilee Zoo, Good Morning World, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. Peepers, Battle of the Network Stars, and many others.

After graduating from Colby College, he and two partners co-founded SFM Media Corporation in 1969, as the first of a new group of media buying services, which became the largest media buying independent in the U.S. In 1998, Havas Media purchased the media buying service, leaving Mr. Moger to thereafter run its Entertainment Division, which he created, and which is credited with developing and implementing advertiser product placement in media programming.

Mr. Moger incorporated his prior experience as a radio announcer, television personality, unit publicity director and voice-over specialist, and as an account executive for NBC Films/California National Productions, The Hollingbery Company and Storer Television Sales, into the media advertising and programming arena. This spilled over into the political arena where he and SFM managed the media buying campaigns of several successful U.S. Presidential candidates.

Mr. Moger was recognized as a "legend of syndication" at a NAPTE convention. He also was recognized as a national media expert whose services were sought by the academic, legal and multimedia communities. He served on the Board of Trustees of the International Documentary Association, Broadcasters Foundation of America, International Radio & Television Foundation (IRTS), National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), was a voting member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), a member of the Hollywood Broadcast Pioneers, and a member/consultant of The American Film Institute. In recognition of his extraordinary career, he was honored with a Doctorate of Letters in Media and Communications from Grand Canyon University.

He is survived by his wife, of 58 years, Marcia Fleishman Moger, their two daughters Robin Maizes and Wendy Bross, and grandchildren Jeffrey, Alexa, Paige Maizes and Sophie Bross. He died on July 25, in Purchase, New York, at the age of 81 after a long battle with liver cancer and other ailments.