Word: silverman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Larry Silverman...
...Silverman, the show's promoter, blames the lack of good Irish fighters for this year's break from tradition. Without Irish boxers, the event can hardly hope to fill the Arena, much less the Garden. The people from South Boston simply don't come out to the fights if they can't cheer on the gutsy kid from L Street...
...bionic programmer now works in a 38th-floor office overlooking the domain of his old CBS colleague Network President Robert Wussler (they occasionally wave to each other from their windows). Silverman arrives at 9:30 each morning and begins rousing his West Coast producers from bed to discuss the overnight ratings. The rest of his day is a marathon of meetings-with soap-opera writers, sitcom producers, cartoon animators, promotion experts, demographics wizards. He returns to his Central Park West apartment for dinner with his wife Cathy and their daughter Melissa, 4, then holes up in his den with...
What makes Freddie run? For one thing, he seems to have TV tubes implanted in his chest. "He is a child of broadcasting," says former CBS Executive Ethel Winant. Silverman's father was in television (he repaired them), and Fred was reared in Forest Hills, N.Y., on Howdy Doody and Clark Kent. He studied communications at Syracuse University and earned a master's degree at Ohio State. His thesis: a 400-page analysis of ABC programs from 1953 to 1959. After two years of scheduling movies for Chicago's WGN-TV, he showered network executives...
Quick-tempered and innocent of the finer social graces, Silverman never moved easily among the Ivy Leaguers and suburban types who run CBS. "Fred's idea of small talk is the present schedule, and his idea of important talk is next year's schedule," says one old associate. "You wouldn't want to sit next to him at a dinner party." Silverman was also relatively underpaid at CBS, at about $150,000 a year with no contract. So when ABC offered him $250,000 per annum in a three-year contract to turn it into...