found: Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Dec. 1, 2016(in obituary dated Nov. 30, 2016: Grant Tinker, the executive who led a prime-time renaissance at NBC and developed shows that helped redefine series television in the 1970s and '80s, died Monday [Nov. 28, 2016] at his home in Los Angeles; he was 90; Tinker's company, MTM Enterprises, which he founded in 1969 with then-wife Mary Tyler Moore, helped change the course of television comedy over the decade that followed; appointed NBC's chairman in 1981; born Jan. 11, 1926, in Stamford, Conn.; joined the NBC radio network in 1949 as a management trainee and was later named operations manager; left NBC in 1954, becoming deputy director of Radio Free Europe, but soon segued to the ad agency McCann-Erickson to develop television programs; worked in a similar capacity at another ad agency, Benton & Bowles, before returning to NBC in 1961 as a programming executive, moving to the network's West Coast offices later that year; promoted to vice president of programming in 1966, he returned to New York only briefly, leaving the network for short stints at Universal and 20th Century Fox; Tinker and Moore's 18-year marriage officially ended in 1981, the same year he began at NBC; after Tinker chose to leave NBC after the network was acquired by GE, he partnered with Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today, to create a production entity named GTG Entertainment)
found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 1, 2016(Grant Tinker, a television producer and network executive who ushered in a new era of sophisticated prime-time programming in the 1970s and 1980s, and who turned around NBC's flagging fortunes in the early 1980s, died Nov. 28 [2016] at his home in Los Angeles; he was 90; Grant Almerin Tinker was born Jan. 11, 1926, in Stamford, Conn.)
