Word: bradshaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewers will have ample opportunity to get to know the Schreuders in coming months. Next week CBS will air the two-part At Mother's Request, based on Jonathan Coleman's 1985 account of the murder of Salt Lake City Millionaire Franklin Bradshaw. Sometime this spring NBC will tell the same story in Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder, a six-hour mini-series drawn from Shana Alexander's book on the same subject. It was a game of TV chicken: the two networks had bought the rights to the competing books and neither wanted to give up the sensational story...
...commands million-dollar fees for putting together megadollar agreements, Felix Rohatyn is the first among equals. As a senior partner at Lazard Freres, a New York investment-banking firm, he has presided over hundreds of mergers and acquisitions. In October, General Electric Chairman John Welch and RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw started talking about a merger over drinks at Rohatyn's Manhattan apartment...
...early-morning telephone call he made to Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Lazard Freres investment banking firm and one of Wall Street's leading merger specialists (see following story). "Can you arrange for me to meet Brad?" asked Welch. The Brad in question was RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 68, who is a friend of Rohatyn's. In early November Rohatyn invited the two men to have a drink in his New York City apartment. They talked about the defense business and the tough competition from the Japanese in consumer electronics. In addition, Welch spoke in general terms about...
...also scalded by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which left him with $34 million worth of dead summer air. Moreover, there was turmoil at the top of NBC's parent corporation, RCA: three presidents and four chairmen within a decade. It was not until the fifth chairman, Thornton Bradshaw, hired Tinker to run NBC in July 1981 that hope and trust were restored to the network. Says Steven Bochco, whose Hill Street Blues had been spawned by Silverman and produced by Tinker: "The day Grant went to NBC, the industry's attitude toward that network changed profoundly, overnight...