Fred Seibert (born September 15, 1951) is a television and film producer, and an entertainment executive who has held leading positions with
MTV Networks,
Hanna-Barbera, and
Next New Networks; he owns
Frederator Studios. He's worked in media innovation for 30 years, responsible for breakthroughs in cable television
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Seibert was
MTV's first
creative director and guided its unique voice and visual identity, creating hundreds of promotions, advertisements, and station IDs for the channel, responsible for a rethinking of how television channels promoted themselves. He also commissioned and approved the mutating MTV logo, despite network executives objections to a logo that did not remain constant.
In 1985, with partner
Alan Goodman at Fred/Alan Inc., Seibert successfully overhauled the then-floundering children's cable channel
Nickelodeon, moving it from worst to first in the ratings; and conceived and executed the
Nick-at-Nite concept. Fred/Alan became the first branding company in television.