Sheri Herman, TV-Internet Pioneer Who Helped Grow E! to 55 Million Subscribers, Dies at 71
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Updated · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Aug 27
Sheri Herman, TV-Internet Pioneer Who Helped Grow E! to 55 Million Subscribers, Dies at 71
1 articles · Updated · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Aug 27
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Sheri Herman died of heart failure on Aug. 6 at her home in Telogia, Florida, at 71, ending a career that spanned cable television, online media and entertainment branding.
At E! Entertainment Television, Herman helped transform startup channel Movietime into E! in 1990, and the network’s subscriber base grew from 2 million to 55 million over the following years.
In the 1990s, she pushed early internet media at American Cybercast, backing The Spot in 1995 and arguing that audiences would shift from TV to PCs as advertising-driven digital content matured.
Her broader résumé included overseeing development tied to Discovery Channel, QVC and other networks at United Cable, then launching SLH Communications in 1999 after later work at Access Entertainment Network.
Colleagues and Temple University remembered Herman as an early evangelist for merging television and the internet, a vision she voiced as far back as the 1970s.