Judges

Gary Theroux

Gary Theroux spent 20 years as the Music & Entertainment Editor of Reader’s Digest, managing the Home Entertainment Division, which marketed entertainment products in 33 countries. He personally created, programmed, produced and annotated more than 300 albums, which collectively have sold more than 39 million copies. As a founder of Reader’s Digest Video, Gary created many of their biggest TV triumphs.

Starting his music career (in a radio station) at age 11, Theroux is a dedicated entertainment historian, maintaining over 250,000 files (bios, photos, reviews, etc.) on more than a century of hit music, films and television programming and maintains a media library of over a half-million reference recordings of music, film and video. And he is currently one of the 25 industry leaders on the Nominating Committee of The Hit Parade Hall of Fame (see www.hitparadehalloffame.org).