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At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBC's entertainment division. When Tartikoff took over, NBC was in last place behind ABC and CBS, and the very future of the network was in doubt.
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 Vice'' and...
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...
Brandon Tartikoff, the former NBC Entertainment president who transformed prime-time television in the 1980s with “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law” and “The Cosby Show,” died Wednesday.
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Brandon Tartikoff was born on January 13, 1949, in the town of Freeport on Long Island, New York. His parents, Jordan and Enid Tartikoff, noticed early on that their son had a different relationship to television than most kids. Instead of just watching television shows, Tartikoff always viewed the entertainment critically. After watching the premi...
Tartikoff's career really started to take off in 1976, when the president of ABC, Fred Silverman (1937–; see entry), saw a WLS promotion called Gorilla My Dreams. When Silverman learned that Tartikoff had come up with the idea, he hired the young programmer to be the manager of dramatic development for ABC. Within a year, Tartikoff had earned aprom...
After leaving NBC, Tartikoff spent one year as the chairman of a major motion picture studio, Paramount Pictures. Despite facing budget limitations, he managed to turn out several box-office successes, including The Addams Family, Wayne's World, and Indecent Proposal. Tartikoff also wrote a memoir, The Last Great Ride, about his years at NBC. In 19...
BOOKS
Tartikoff, Brandon, with Charles Leerhsen. The Last Great Ride. New York: Random House, 1992.
PERIODICALS
Aucoin, Don. "Tartikoff Never Muted His Own Audio." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 27, 1997. Gliatto, Tom. "Televisionary." People, September 15, 1997. Levine, Stuart. "Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards." Variety, January 22, 2003.
WEB SITES
Goodman, Tim. "Brandon Tartikoff Dead of Cancer." SFGate.com, August 28, 1997. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/08/28/STY-LE1231.dtl&hw=brandon+tartikoff&sn=002&sc=796(accessed on May 22, 2006). Hatton, Steve. "NBC Celebrates 75 Years of Broadcasting: The Brandon Tartikoff Era." Suite101.com, April 1, 2002. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/television_review/90650 (accessed on May 22, 2006). "NATPE Unveils the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards." NATPE.org, October 22, 200...
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,...
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Aug 28, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff, the television programming wunderkind who built NBC into the powerhouse network of the 1980s, died in Los Angeles yesterday at the age of 48. Tartikoff succumbed to...
