Ted Harbert

• Birthplace: New York, New York
• Birthday: June 15, 1955

During a near twenty year tenure at ABC, Ted Harbert worked his way up the ladder from television planning and scheduling to primetime responsibilities as president (and later chair) of ABC Entertainment. He left the network in 1997 to accept an exclusive deal at DreamWorks SKG to develop and produce TV shows.

Born in NYC, this son of a TV producer and director earned a communications degree from Boston University in the late 1970s. Harbert spent a year as a radio news producer at WHDH in Boston before fulfilling a lifelong dream of working…more