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...ratings for CBS and ABC, and a higher profile for its star. It provided thrills, laughter and tears. But last week, after a chaotic three-year run on NBC, The Fred Silverman Show was canceled. Silverman, 43, resigned as president of NBC when his new boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 63, refused to guarantee him a free hand. Fred's successor: Grant Tinker, 55, whose MTM Enterprises has produced such classy fare as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant and NBC's own Hill Street Blues. Says TV Consultant Mike Dann: "Tinker has the best reputation...
...Brad" Bradshaw, who had been president of Atlantic Richfield (Arco) oil company for 16 years before replacing Edgar Griffiths at the helm of RCA, is known as the Mountie of American corporate chiefs: he always gets his man. This spring he was headhunting for a successor to Silverman. In May he had lunch with Tinker, whom he had never met, at Perino's in Los Angeles. "My impression was that Bradshaw was just doing his homework for his new job, getting the feel of the medium," Tinker recalled as he relaxed last week...
...Bradshaw had other ideas. "It definitely crossed my mind," he says, "that if and when the time came to replace Silverman, this is the man I'd like to have." The two men met again three weeks later. "After lunch at Perino's," Bradshaw recalls saying to Tinker, "I thought you'd be the ideal person to run NBC. Is that a ridiculous thought?" "As a matter of fact, it isn't," came the reply. "Fine," said Bradshaw, "it's settled." The Silverman Era was over...
...Terry Bradshaw, the man Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson said could not spell the word "cat" if you spotted him the "c" and the "a," will receive an honorary doctorate in the humanities from his almost mater, Louisiana Tech, on Saturday. The presentation will take place at the school's commencement ceremonies at Aillet Stadium...
...Clyde Bradshaw, DePaul...