Thomas George Osenton,

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Tom, is an American publisher and author. He was president, chief executive officer and publisher of ''The Sporting News'' Publishing Company.

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Osenton was born April 9, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the

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, Brookline High School and

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Osenton was press chief for

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at the

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, and directed the press operations for the tournament that resulted in the 1980 U.S. Hockey team's Gold medal

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. He later was employed at the ABC Television Network in New York, primarily as network spokesperson focusing on the

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in Sarajevo and Summer Olympics that year in Los Angeles. Beginning in 1989, he was president and chief operating officer of Sporting News Publishing Company, where he was also publisher of ''

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'' weekly as well as '' Sporting Goods Dealer'' monthly - the industry's trade journal. He was previously publisher of '' Billboard's'' '' American Artist'' magazine beginning in 1986.

Authorship

Osenton is author of three business-school textbooks: ''Customer Share Marketing'' (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002) ''Death of Demand'' (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004) and ''Boomer Destiny: Leading the U.S. Through the Worst Crisis Since the Great Depression'' (Praeger Publishers, 2009). He wrote about the

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of ''innovation saturation'' in his 2004 book, ''The Death of Demand: Finding Growth in a Saturated Global Economy'' (Financial Times Prentice Hall).Emmy Favilla, "Required Reading: Tom Osenton on the 'Death of Demand,'" ''CRM'' magazine, June 2004
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