Word: bradshaw
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...obvious reference to the close relationship between Agee, 44, and Mary Cunningham, 30, who became a Bendix vice president for strategic planning just 15 months after joining the company and then resigned amid rumors that she and Agee were romantically linked. In another broadside, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw noted that his firm is engaged in the delicate maneuver of deciding which businesses to sell and which to keep to become more profitable. Said he: "This is precisely not the time for us to permit anyone to attempt to meddle with or in any way destabilize the effort under...
Bendix's unsuccessful courting of RCA had been going on for months. According to one source, Agee first approached Bradshaw last September with a merger proposal, but "Bradshaw threw him out of his office." Bendix has confirmed that Agee discussed an investment in RCA at the meeting. Last week, when Agee returned to reveal the Bendix purchase, Bradshaw reportedly told him that "there were going to be no punches pulled and that they [RCA] were going to drag in his personal life" if Agee persisted. Bradshaw himself has declined comment on the report...
Brent Musberger hosted one of the silliest parts of the CBS pre-game, a simulation that pitted the play-calling abilities of Roger Staubach against those of Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw and Staubach were presented with various situations that could occur during the game and were asked to call defensive and offensive plays...
Although rumors persist in entertainment and news circles that Bradshaw may eventually be compelled to attempt to sell NBC, the new boss insists that the network is not on the market. Nonetheless, Bradshaw has a major and frustrating problem with his biggest subsidiary. With the exception of the critically acclaimed Hill Street Blues series, NBC has few standout offerings of any sort in its current prime-time lineup. Its market share of viewers has dropped by 8% in the past year. Says Bradshaw with grim gallows humor: "Our NBC profits are so much lower than the competition's network...
...Bradshaw is counting on Grant Tinker, a highly regarded Hollywood studio executive and onetime producer of the successful Mary Tyler Moore series, to bring back the viewers. Bradshaw appointed Tinker last summer to replace the widely disliked Fred Silverman as head of NBC. The appointment has been praised as a morale booster at the net work. Said an NBC producer: "You don't have to keep your back against a wall for protection all the time now. When Fred was around, you did." It remains to be seen, though, whether Tinker can translate good vibes among his staff...