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| Kassie Canter |
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Launching her career at the legendary Robinson Lerer & Montgomery strategic communications shop, Canter went on to serve as executive VP-communications at Viacom Music and Entertainment.
In the interim, she worked as senior VP-communications at NBC and chief communications officer at Oxygen Media. At Oxygen, she helped develop the PR strategy connected to its $925M sale to NBCUniversal in 2007.
Following completion of that deal, Canter was an independent PR consultant, handling clients such as Lifetime, AMC Networks, Nickelodeon and The Weather Channel.
A “celebration of life” service for Canter was held October 27 at Riverside Memorial Chapel.
Donations in her name should go to the West Side Campaign Against Hunger.
Frank Ramos, who headed the PR department for the doomed-to-fail New York Jets for 39 years, died on Jan. 27. He was 87.
He practiced PR for 70 years. We were friends for 30. Here's the wizard I knew.
Andy Stanton, who was director of finance at Stanton PR, died Nov. 12 in New York. He was 39.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
