William J. Kay | Sid & Marty Krofft

Description

William J. Kay is head of Business Affairs for Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures.  He is responsible for & assists in strategic long term planning of intellectual property rights exploitation for film, television, and internet.  Mr. Kay works with entertainment contracts drafting, negotiating, and interpretation, for television licensing, DVD, digital distribution, and licensing of merchandising.

Mr. Kay earned his Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and is a member of the State Bar of California.  William received his bachelors in Political Science from the University of CA, Los Angeles with a minor in Geography.

William worked at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).   Some of his duties at AFTRA included staff union representation, collective bargaining contract negotiations, filing of grievance and procedures under the CBA, which included arbitration.

Bios

Sid & Marty Krofft Headshot

Many of the most colorful and fondly remembered children's series of the 1970s and 1980s sprang from the imaginations of Sid and Marty Krofft. Their groundbreaking, live-action fantasy shows were...

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Awards

  • Music City News | Sid & Marty Krofft

    Music City News

    Barbara Mandrell, Program of the Year, 1981
  • Action for Children’s Television | Sid & Marty Krofft

    Action for Children’s Television

    Pryor’s Place for Achievement in Children’s Television, 1985
  • Youth In Film | Sid & Marty Krofft

    Youth In Film

    Lifetime Achievement Award, 1992

History

It all started when Sid & Marty Krofft's father Peter Krofft, discovered seven-year-old Sid (born July 30, 1929) had puppeteering talent and auditioned him in his own production of “Snow...

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