Remembering Grant Tinker….
Grant Tinker, former CEO of NBC, dies at age 90
Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of NBC and architect of many successes for the network, has died at age 90. He was also a former husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
MAJOR NEW YORK STUDIOS HISTORY UPDATE…. WOR – ABC – NBC – VIDEO TAPE CENTER/ 67th Street Studios In this RCA Broadcast News magazine from the fall of 1950, starting on page 46, this 27 page article gives us a complete and total tour of the new WOR Television Center on 67th Street, AND, some […]
May 27, 1972…George Carlin Debuts The Infamous “7 Words” Sketch 44 years ago today, George Carlin’s now-legendary, “7 Words You Can Never Say On Television” sketch from the “Class Clown” album, was performed in concert for the first time. It was an instant hit! A few years ago, Carlin discussed this in an interview for […]
‘The Larry Sanders Show’…August 15, 1992 – May 31, 1998 It’s hard to believe that it was 22 years ago this week that HBO debuted ‘The Larry Sanders Show’, but it was. Out of the box, they knew they had a hit with Garry Shandling’s new show that took us behind the scenes of late […]
September 21, 1970…’ABC Monday Night Football’ Debuts Most think this was a marriage made in heaven, but infact, it was really more like a shotgun wedding. During the early 1960s, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle envisioned the possibility of playing at least one game weekly during prime time for a greater TV audience. While the NFL […]