Television executive enjoying the view from the top.

My alarm is set for 5:25 in the morning but I get up a minute before it goes off. I'm out the door by 5:39. I have an exercise schedule that depends on the day of the week.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday I start with a 6 a.m. group exercise class. Wednesday ends at the gym. Sunday and Friday begin with a 25-mile bike ride with friends. Saturday starts with a four-mile run.

Afterward, I go by Pete's in order to bring my assistant Meredith a non-fat vanilla latte. It makes for a better day. I get myself a drink as well.

I'm at the desk a little after 8. I live in Santa Monica and work in the Fox Plaza in Century City in the building they used for "Die Hard."

I take the first couple of minutes to look out my window. I have by far the nicest office of my career. I'm on the 18th floor with wall to wall glass. I have a magnificent view: At one end I can see the ocean and Catalina Island and the airport. I can look down at the studio and the lot, the rest of Century City and downtown; the snowcapped mountains way to the east, the Griffith Park Observatory, the Hollywood sign, and Beverly Hills.

Then I dive into work.

I head the organization that gets all of Fox's cable channels carried by cable systems (there are 30 of them), DirecTV, and EchoStar. We get people to watch these channels and we bring a lot of money into the organization.

Our responsibility is to get a newly launched channel and all its related pieces into people's homes. We end up having considerable influence on what channels the company invests in. We decide which channel we can get into the marketplace, how much we can charge for it, how many viewers are going to see it.

The first work-related thing that I'm doing in the morning is getting on the phone with the top program executives for Comcast and Time Warner. We're always in the state of negotiating something. Time Warner, for example, wants to create a video-on-demand package for its subscribers called "The Best of Television." Viewers would be able to go through the programs ("Prison Break," "24,") and choose what they want to watch. It hasn't been done yet, but Time Warner is trying it. I was on the phone with Time Warner, talking about which cities they would trial test it in, whether they should charge for the test period, or whether it should be free.

As far as business negations with Comcast go, we are trying to increase our production of high definition games for sports channels around the country and Comcast is going to be the first beneficiary. They own cable systems serving several of the markets where we are going to increase our high definition games-Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, parts of Detroit. The other day I was on the phone with Comcast figuring out what cable systems have the opportunity to take advantage of these high definition games. We only want to do it if it a technical possibility.

Then I'm checking in with each of the network heads, making sure everything is running smoothly. Let's say the people who run FSN here in LA tell me there is an opportunity to purchase the rights to telecast additional Angeles games. I ask if the market wants these games, how much we can make in advertising, and if we can get any money from cable operators for this.

For lunch, I often go to the Studio Commissary. I will have a business lunch there with a cable operator, or, for example, a meeting with the head of one of our agencies who does a lot of Web site work for us.

In the afternoon I have a variety of meetings. Right now I am being pressed to go up to a meeting where a colleague is going to prep me on a deal to put Fox TV content on iPods. I have other short meeting in the afternoons when I look at that day's creative ads or scripts to promote channels that go into the different trade magazines. I make sure they are OK.

I leave at 6:45. My wife and I have watched every single Daily Show for five years. Bedtime is a negotiation. I want to go to bed at 10; my wife at 12. So we usually go to bed at 11.

Job Posting

Lindsay Gardner 

President Affiliate Sales and Marketing Fox Cable Networks

Young Journalist: He was editor of his college paper and he was a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Hobbies: Cycling especially long distance bike races. He has participated in the Century Bike Race (a 109-mile race around Tucson, Ariz.) three times.

Education: Attended Beverly Hills High School before heading to the East Coast for undergrad at Brandeis University and an M.B.A. from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania 

Music: "I know pretty much every Broadway show tune between 1930 and 1970. When I was growing up my father and I used to sing songs around the piano. I have a total knowledge of Irving Bedlin and Rodgers and Hammerstein."