Barbara Brogliatti

Barbara Brogliatti was an entertainment public relations executive who worked at CBS, Lorimar and Warner Bros. over a 40-year career.

After graduating from UCLA, Brogliatti began her career in the publicity department at CBS. As she rose through the ranks, she impressed producer Norman Lear, who hired her to head the public relations team for his companies.

After 11 years at CBS she moved on to Lorimar as the head of corporate communications, public affairs and investor relations. She left briefly in 1989 to form her own PR firm, The Brogliatti Co., where she represented Lear, Jean Stapleton and Barbara Walters, among others. She returned to Lorimar a year later, and in 1993, when Lorimar and Warner Bros. Television merged, she became the studio's senior communications executive. In 1997 Brogliatti created the Warner Bros. worldwide corporate communications department, which she headed until her retirement in 2005.

She also served as the PR strategist for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in labor negotiations with the talent guilds, served as a chairperson for the MPAA's Anti-Piracy public relations and was an adjunct professor of communications at Bradley University. Additionally, in 1985 and '86 she served on the Television Avademy's Board of Governors for the Public Relations Peer Group.

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Brogliatti died June 21, 2015, in Napa Valley, California. She was 69.