Grant Tinker, Revered Former NBC and MTM Chief, Dies at 90
Source: Variety
Former NBC chairman-CEO Grant Tinker, a revered producer and executive who founded MTM Enterprises with Mary Tyler Moore and later rose to the challenge of taking NBC from last place to first, has died. He was 90.
Tinker died Monday at his home in California, according to a report Wednesday on NBC’s “Today.”
“Grant Tinker was a great man who made an indelible mark on NBC and the history of television that continues to this day,” NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said. “He loved creative people and protected them, while still expertly managing the business. Very few people have been able to achieve such a balance. We try to live up to the standards he set each and every day. Our hearts go out to his family and friends.”
The poised, avuncular Tinker’s television career spanned almost half a century, from its inception through the 1990s. He usually took the high road on most of his projects starting with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” through to “Lou Grant,” “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the dramatic home run “Hill Street Blues.” In an industry replete with behind-the-scenes machinations, his working relationships, both as a producer and an executive, were relatively strife-free.
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One of the best dramatic series ever on TV.
I remember the '60s/'70s version.
