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    Brandon Tartikoff

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  1. Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was head of the entertainment division of NBC from 1981 to 1991. [1]

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  3. The former programming wizard for NBC, who died Wednesday at 48 from Hodgkin's disease, was the youngest entertainment president of a major network when he took over the NBC reins in 1980 at...

  4. Brandon Tartikoff. Writer: Beggars and Choosers. Brandon Tartikoff was a graduate of Yale University, and started his career out at WLS-TV in Chicago. He switched jobs to ABC in New York in the mid-1970s, and moved to NBC in 1977 where he became a programming executive hired by Dick Ebersol.

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  5. Aug 28, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff, one of the most successful showmen in the history of network television, who brought to NBC such hit series as ''Hill Street Blues,'' ''The Cosby Show,'' ''Miami...

  6. Aug 28, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff, whose high-profile 10-year run as president of NBC Entertainment shepherded some of television’s most enduring programs and established network executives as celebrities,...

  7. Brandon Tartikoff. Writer: Beggars and Choosers. Brandon Tartikoff was a graduate of Yale University, and started his career out at WLS-TV in Chicago. He switched jobs to ABC in New York in the mid-1970s, and moved to NBC in 1977 where he became a programming executive hired by Dick Ebersol.

  8. Jan 4, 1998 · This eye and taste of a 19-year-old had profound consequences for network television. It's what enabled Tartikoff to invent and perfect demographically targeted niche programming.

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