Grant A. Tinker

Background

Tinker, Grant A. was born on January 11, 1926 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.

Education

Student, Dartmouth College.

Career

With radio program department NBC, 1949-1954. Television department McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency, 1954-1958. Benton & Bowles Advertising Agency, 1958-1961.

Vice president-programs West Coast, NBC, 1961-1966, vice president in charge programming New York City, 1966-1967. Vice president Universal television, 1968-1969, 20th-Fox, 1969-1970. President Mary Tyler Moore (Media Technology Monitor) Enterprises, Inc., Studio City, California, 1970-1981.

Chairman board, chief executive officer NBC, Burbank, 1981-1986. Independent producer, from 1986. President GTG Entertainment, Culver City, from 1986.

Achievements

• Grant A. Tinker has been listed as a noteworthy broadcasting executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric

    (The founder of MTM Enterprises, who later rescued NBC fro...)

  • Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric Hardcover September, 1994
  • Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric by Grant Tinker (1994-09-03)