Grant Tinker

Grant Almerin Tinker is the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, cofounder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer. Tinker is the former husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.

Tinker was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Margaret and Arthur Almerin Tinker. During World War II, Tinker served in the Army Air Corps Reserve. Tinker married Moore in 1962, and in 1969 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises. While creating MTM Enterprises, Tinker hired Room 222 writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce the companys first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. MTM Enterprises produced such popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere.

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