Grant Tinker
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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.
In addition, he was a co-founder of MTM Enterprises and a television actor.
Tinker was the husband of actress and producer Mary Tyler Moore for 19 years (1962–1981).
Personal life
Tinker has been married three times. In 1950, he married Ruth Byerly, with whom he had three sons and a daughter: Mark (b. Mike (b. 1951) Mike (b. Jodie (b. 1952), 1952). (b. 1954) and John (b.). (58). Mark and John are prolific writers. In 1962, Tinker's marriage to Byerly ended in divorce. In the same year, Tinker married actress Mary Tyler Moore. This marriage ended in divorce in 1981, though they had separated in 1979 following a 1973 breakup and patch-up. Tinker's third marriage was in 2004 to aviator Brooke Knapp, who married him until his death in 2016.
Life and career
Tinker was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Margaret (née Hessin) and Arthur Almerin Tinker. Joan, his younger sister, was his narrator.
Tinker served in the Reserve of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He graduated from Dartmouth College. Mark and John, his sons, are also television producers.
Tinker, 1961, returned to NBC as the head of West Coast television, where he was instrumental in the creation of I Spy, Dr. Kildare, and Get Smart.
In 1962, Tinker married Mary Tyler Moore. He left NBC in 1967 to join Universal Television, but he resigned after two years in order to join 20th Century Fox Television in early 1969. They formed MTM Enterprises, a television production company, in late 1969. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was written and produced by Tinker's James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to design and produce the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He left Fox in 1971 due to a rift with running MTM. Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues, and St. Germain were among MTM's most popular American sitcoms and drama television series as Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, and drama television series The Bob Newhart Show. Elsewhere, Elsewhere. Tinker moved from MTM to become the chairman and CEO of NBC, then the perennial last-place American television network (in terms of Nielsen ratings and profits). During Tinker's tenure as the network's top producer, the network regained ratings and hired The Cosby Show, Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Night Court, and Hill Street Blues. Tinker left the network in 1986, just after GM purchased RCA.
Tinker attempted to repeat his success with MTM by forming GTG (Grant Tinker-Gannett) Entertainment (formerly T/G Productions), but the venture fell in 1990 and the company was no longer active. The corporation collaborated with CBS to draw a long-term deal to provide access to GTG Entertainment's content, and it was a joint venture between CBS and GTG. GTG Marketing, the company's East Coast production arm, and GTG West Coast production arm GTG West have both established subsidiaries, with the first product being exported by the GTG East branch being a syndicated version of the famous USA Today newspaper, USA Today on TV, distributed to syndicated markets by the GTG Marketing division.
Awards and honors
- Tinker was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1997.
- In 2004, Tinker won a personal Peabody Award "for recognizing, protecting, and fostering creativity of the highest order."