Michael Dann
Michael Harold Dann (September 11, 1921 – May 27, 2016) was an American television executive.
Dann was vice president of programming at
tent-pole programming, in which a new or struggling sitcom could be made more successful by putting more successful shows before and after it. Many of Dann's approaches to programming would be reversed when Fred Silverman replaced Dann in 1970; Silverman orchestrated the "rural purge
" and took the network into a more urban-oriented direction.
After leaving CBS, Dann joined the upstart
QUBE[1]
Dann's career with CBS is chronicled in Les Brown's book, Televi$ion: The Business Behind The Box.[2]
He was born in Detroit, Michigan in September 1921. Dann died in May 2016 at the age of 94.[3]
References
- ^ QUBE
- ISBN 0151884501.
- ^ Grimes, William (31 May 2016). "Michael Dann, TV Programmer, Dies at 94; Scheduled Horowitz and Hillbillies". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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