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...name," began the husky-voiced witness, introducing himself like any quiz contestant, "is Robert E. Kintner. I am president of the National Broadcasting Company...
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...contributors to Variety's review, only the network brass sounds satisfied. "I have read about how the next season's television schedules will be 'stale and pedestrian,' " says NBC President Robert Kintner. "If by these words the critics mean that programs that the public likes will return to television, then the schedules will be stale and pedestrian...
When Robert E. Kintner, 48, joined the National Broadcasting Co. on Jan. i, 1957, after seven years as president of the third-place American Broadcasting Co., everybody on Madison Avenue knew that if he made good as vice president in charge of NBC's television network he would one day become president. Last week the day came. In a major topside shuffle, NBC President Robert Sarnoff, 40, son of NBC Founding Father David Sarnoff, moved up to board chairman, keeping the title of chief executive officer. Into the slot of president, with supervision over...
Behind the elevation of Kintner, a onetime Washington newspaper correspondent (for the New York Herald Tribune) and syndicated columnist (with Joseph Alsop), lay some pretty satisfying sales figures. During the first five months of 1958, thanks chiefly to a vigorous Kintner-Sarnoff policy of boosting news and special-events coverage by 20%, NBC network TV sales were $90.8 million, up a hefty $11 million from $79.1 million at this time last year. This was almost twice the gain registered by the longtime front-runner CBS. (From January through this May, CBS racked up $104,300,000 in network TV billings...