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Grant Almerin Tinker (January 11, 1926 – November 28, 2016) was an American television executive who served as chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986. Additionally, he was a co-founder of MTM Enterprises and a television producer.
Grant Tinker, who produced “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and other television hits in the 1970s and transformed NBC from a perennial ratings loser to a powerhouse of literate, sophisticated network...
MTM Enterprises (also known as MTM Productions) was an American 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. The name for the production company was drawn from Mary Tyler Moore's initials.
Grant Almerin Tinker (January 11, 1926 – November 28, 2016) was an American television producer and executive. He was the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986. He is the co-founder of MTM Enterprises. Tinker was the former husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
Grant Tinker was born on 11 January 1926 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was a producer, known for Good Morning (1954), Going Places (1973) and The Lily Tomlin Special (1975). He was married to Brooke Knapp, Mary Tyler Moore and Ruth Prince Byerly.
In the case of Grant Tinker and why he's widely considered the best and most influential network executive in TV history, it wasn't so much what he did, as how he did it.
Grant Tinker, who brought new polish to the TV world and beloved shows including Hill Street Blues to the audience as both a producer and a network boss, has died. He was 90.
Grant Tinker left an indelible mark on television as a leader who believed in it as a legitimate art form, not a cash register disguised as a projector.
Grant Tinker, a TV industry titan who helped resurrect an ailing NBC in the 1980s and built MTM into a production powerhouse with shows like "Hill Street Blues" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show,"...
NEW YORK — Grant Tinker, who brought new polish to the TV world and beloved shows to the audience as both a producer and a network boss, has died. He was 90.