Grant Tinker (born January 11, 1925) is the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer. Tinker is the former husband of television actress, Mary Tyler Moore and also known as "the man who saved NBC". January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MTM Enterprises was an independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS. It was sold in 1990 to TVS Entertainment plc, which was acquired by Pat Robertsons International Family Entertainment in 1993. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Statue of Mary Tyler Moore in downtown Minneapolis Mary Tyler Moore (born on December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM...

Tinker married Moore in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises. While creating MTM Enterprises, Tinker hired Room 222 writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. MTM Enterprises would later produced popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Hill Street Blues. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Room 222 was an ABC situation comedy/drama TV series that aired from September 17, 1969 to January 11, 1974. ... James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a Hollywood producer, writer, and film director. ... Allan Burns (born May 18, 1935) is a Jewish-American screenwriter and television producer. ... The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Rhoda was an American situation comedy and a television spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ... The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series. ... The cast of WKRP in Cincinnati is pictured in this 1978 publicity photo. ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. ...

After his divorce from Moore in 1981 Tinker left MTM Enterprises to become the chairman and CEO of then perennial last-place American television network (in terms of Neilsen ratings and profits) NBC. During Tinker's tenure in NBC's top position, the network regained ratings and produced popular shows like The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, and Hill Street Blues. Tinker left the network in 1986, shortly its parent company RCA was bought by General Electric. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are generally referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by the New York City-based firm Nielsen Media Research to determine which shows television viewers watch at what times. ... The Cosby Show, starring Bill Cosby, is an American sitcom that was first broadcast in 1984. ... Family Ties was an American television sitcom which aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. ... Cheers was a long-running American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show was set in the eponymous Cheers bar (both the show and the bar are named after the toast Cheers) in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals... Night Court was a situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 1984 until May 1992. ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related... The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...

After leaving NBC, Tinker tried to repeat his success with MTM Enterprises by forming GTG (Grant Tinker-Gannett) Entertainment but the business venture failed and the company closed in 1990. Gannett Company, Inc. ... This article is about the year. ...

Grant Tinker is a graduate of Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College, incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College, is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

References

• TINKER, GRANT entry. Museum of Broadcast Communications. URL accessed on June 9, 2005.

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External links

• Grant Tinker at the Internet Movie Database