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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. He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with several hit series: Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Law & Order, ALF, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Golden Girls, Wings, Miami Vice, Knight ...
Tartikoff had battled Hodgkin's disease, a lymph node cancer, for more than half his life. He was just 23 when he was first diagnosed with the illness, and he beat back two earlier bouts with the ...
Aug 28, 1997 · Aug. 28, 1997 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITERS. Brandon Tartikoff, whose high-profile 10-year run as president of NBC Entertainment shepherded some of television’s most enduring programs and ...
Aug 28, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff, former NBC executive who transformed television in 1980's, dies at age 48; photo (M) ... The cause was complications from treatment for Hodgkin's disease, friends of Mr ...
Aug 28, 1997 · TARTIKOFF'S EARLY DEATH STUNS COLLEAGUES. By John Carmody. August 28, 1997 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Brandon Tartikoff, who died yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 48, was a programming genius who led ...
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Dec 6, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff, the NBC programming wunderkind whose scheduling savvy transformed the Peacock web from a primetime cellar-dweller to the top of the Nielsen charts in the mid-1980s with such ...
Aug 28, 1997 · The famed NBC programming director knew he had the disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes, as early as age 23. Tartikoff died at the UCLA Medical Center after entering for treatment of his third ...
