Whatever comes from the federal probe of Broadcom’s options backdating, cofounder and former CEO Nick Nicholas is bracing for the media. His publicist Bob Magnuson has retained L.A. crisis manager Mark Saylor, formerly of Sitrick & Co. and, like Magnuson, of the L.A. Times …
An estimated net worth of $2.3 billion only gets Ducks owner (and other Broadcom cofounder) Henry Samueli to fourth place on Forbes’ list of hockey-owner billionaires. The L.A. Kings’ Philip Anschutz ranks first at $7.6 billion …
Watch for another major education gift from Donald Bren this week, aimed at underprivileged kids in K-5 … Mike Carona adviser Michael Schroeder gave a spirited defense of the indicted ex-sheriff under sharp questioning from OC Press Club members at Jason’s Downtown in Santa Ana. But even OC Register reporter Tony Saavedra and “Mr. Alternative Weekly” Will Swaim, well-versed in Carona allegations, said that what federal prosecutors have disclosed thus far may be “thin” for conviction …
Rebuffed suitor Dean Singleton could be hooking up with the Register after all. OC Weekly’s Nick Schou reports of meetings between reps of the Reg and Singleton’s MediaNews Group, which owns the L.A. Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram and other area papers. They’ve discussed cost-sharing arrangements such as pooling sports and entertainment reporters. When the Reg’s parent, Irvine-based Freedom Communications, partnered with Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners in 2003, a miffed Singleton called Freedom’s Hoiles family “na & #271;ve beach boys” who had gone swimming with “sharks,” and predicted he’d be back …
Makeover: The Anaheim Convention Center is turning 40, newly remodeled …
Jerry Mandel has decided to heck with retirement. The former OC Performing Arts Center prez is taking over as CEO of the Irvine Public Schools Foundation. He succeeds Tim Shaw, who now has a consulting firm, Empower/Excel. As for his volunteer gig as chairman of the OC High School of the Arts, Mandel reports the March 15 gala at the Hyatt Regency Irvine chaired by George and Julia Argyros is sold out with more than 600 attendees: “It’s the hottest ticket in town.” The event is expected to raise about $1 million; auction items include vacations and a trip to the Tony Awards in New York; original photos of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and, yes, a night with sax-playing Mandel and his band …
Former OC Metro columnists Michael Capaldi (right) and Chris Mears (left) bring their lively political perspectives to the OCBJ beginning next month …
Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Ronen Sen addresses a World Affairs Council dinner Wednesday at the Hilton Costa Mesa …
U of Kansas Journalism prof Jimmy Gentry used to run a heck of a finishing school for biz journalists at the U of Missouri. When they showed up for his Davenport Fellowship program back in 1984, Russ Stanton was reporting for the San Bernardino Sun and EE RR was doing the same for Ohio’s Akron Beacon Journal. Score another one for Davenport: Stanton is new editor of the L.A. Times.
