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	Fred Silverman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937 in New York City) is an American television executive and producer.
		Silverman graduated from Syracuse University and then earned a Master's degree from Ohio State University and went to work for WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois overseeing children's programming.
		Silverman was one of the people responsible for the "Rural Purge" of 1971, which eliminated many popular country-oriented shows, such as Green Acres, from the CBS schedule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Silverman (317 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fred Silverman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fred: One of the problems historically is that poll workers are mostly retired individuals and I think there's been a move since 2000 which is to allow corporations to give people a paid day off to work at the polls.
		Fred Silverman and Alex Keyssar: Alex: I would like to see that future be promising, but I think its unlikely we're going to see much about it, because I think many people are concerned about the potential for fraud and it would seem to be a reasonable issue that could deflect changes.
		Fred: At least the idea of giving people an hour off from work that day, because a difficulty we face is that if you're not going to have the day off you won't have the time to vote.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fred-Silverman (1228 words)

	Silverman, Fred
		What makes Silverman unique in the history of American network television is that he raced through network jobs while still in his thirties and that his career mysteriously waned after having waxed so splendidly for so long.
		Fred Silverman graduated with a Master's degree from Ohio State University (his master's thesis analyzed programming practices at ABC) and went to work for WGN-TV in Chicago to oversee children's programs.
		The first years for the Fred Silverman Company were difficult, particularly because the former program buyer was now forced to try to sell programming to many of the persons he had alienated at the networks.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/silvermanfr/silvermanfr.htm (992 words)

	Monday
		For Silverman, who after NBC went on to launch a string of hit series as an independent producer, including “Matlock” and “Diagnosis Murder,” the NBC of 2005 has come to look an awful lot like the struggling network he was hired to bail out almost three decades ago, in 1978.
		Silverman first used and perfected it at CBS, where he rose to head programming in the early '70s, at a time when it was the top network.
		Silverman had figured turning NBC around would take three to five years, but that was before he saw the work that needed to be done.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /News2005/jul05/jul18/1_mon/news3monday.html (1424 words)

	Fred Silverman - Who's Who in RCA VideoDisc
		Fred Silverman received an MA in Television and Theater Arts from Ohio State University in 1961.
		Silverman came on board in June 1978, replacing Herbert Schlosser who was bumped up to a vice presidency at RCA where he soon became Executive Vice President of VideoDisc Programming.
		But Fred Silverman lost his touch upon joining NBC with such disastrous shows as "Supertrain" and "Pink Lady and Jeff." He also clashed with NBC Chairwoman Jane Pfeiffer over programming issues.
	www.cedmagic.com /mem/whos-who/silverman-fred.html (1214 words)

	Rural purge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Rural Purge" at American television network CBS was a series of cancellations of still-popular rural-themed shows instigated by executive Fred Silverman in 1971, following research highlighting the greater attraction to advertisers of the more affluent urban viewer demographic.
		Silverman, disturbed by CBS's reputation as the "Countrified Broadcasting System," decided not to renew such long-running shows as The Beverly Hillbillies, The Ed Sullivan Show, Mayberry R.F.D. Green Acres, and, after just one season, Hee Haw.
		Silverman replaced much of the cancelled programming with such urban-oriented, "relevant" fare as All in the Family (and its many spinoffs) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rural_purge (162 words)

	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
		A case can be made that Silverman actually invented a healthy chunk of modern TV tastes, beginning at CBS in 1970, with one of the most shocking re-orgs in the history of the medium.
		Silverman itched to get away from that 80-below winter wind blowing off of Lake Michigan, and once again, created his own `lucky break.' While in grad school working on that thesis, he had also brazenly written a letter to CBS programming chief Oscar Katz, casually offering to reschedule his prime time line-up.
		Silverman figured something out when he commissioned new cartoons in the mid-60s: kids make up their minds fast, and they base their taste largely on the characters.
	www.emmys.org /awards/halloffame/fredsilverman.php (2566 words)

	SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU? \| A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
		was originally the brainchild of Fred Silverman, who, as the head of CBS daytime programming in 1969, wanted a cartoon series that would be a departure from the superhero genre and delve into the area of comedy.
		What Silverman envisioned was a cross between a popular 1940's radio programme I Love A Mystery which was about three detectives, and a 1959 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, about a scatterbrained teenager and his friends.
		The same night that the show was rejected Fred Silverman took a flight back to Los Angeles, and, whilst relaxing to the sound of Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night through his earphones, the line 'Scooby-dooby-doo' struck him with sudden inspiration.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /scooby.htm (507 words)

	American Film - June 1979
		The reasons for its cancellation, which coincided with Fred Silverman’s takeover of NBC in June, are not entirely clear.
		Silverman now had his actress, but he had lost his producers.
		Fred Silverman had evidently seen Mulgrew on an episode of CBS’s “Dallas” in which she played an aspiring country-and-western singer named Garnett McGee.
	www.totallykate.com /articles/amerfilm.html (2741 words)

	Jews & the media: money or malice? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Silverman's personal bias, a cultural sting was associated with the purge and is still recalled bitterly by the show's producers and performers, as well as by their old fans.
		These shows were perceived by then CBS executive Fred Silverman to only appeal to people who lived in rural areas and older people, so he decided to cancel them even though they were all still hugely popular at the time.
		Fred didn't mind rural or southern entertainment so much after all, as long as it was his kind of rural or southern entertainment, i.e., jewish kulturkampf.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=233958 (1690 words)

	Business Wire: TV Veteran, Program Pioneer, Fred Silverman, Go... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fred Silverman, the highly-successful and prominent network television executive and independent producer, has been named adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinema-Television, it was announced today by Larry Auerbach, Associate Dean.
		Silverman's classes, attended by MBA students who are usually attracted to the upper strata of the financial sector, as well as film school graduates, tap a new market for education: business pros seeking careers in the entertainment industry.
		In addition to Silverman, a number of other industry vets have recently been recruited to the ranks of academia at USC for the entertainment business curriculum.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:94015262&refid=ink_tptd_np (552 words)

	Scooby Doo - Pictures, Sounds, and Videos
		Scooby Doo first aired on CBS and can be traced back to Fred Silverman in 1969 who was the head of Daytime Programming for CBS.
		Silverman was looking for a show that would lead the network away from the superhero cycle and take them into an area of comedy and adventure.
		Silverman's quest was brought before Hanna-Barbera who assigned writers Ken Spears and Joe Ruby to create the characters, plots, and many of the story lines.
	www.everwonder.com /david/scooby/created (821 words)

	TIME ARCHIVE: 1923 - Present
		Fred Silverman knew there was something wrong with the whale in his office.
		Silverman 's last-minute shuffle upstages the new series As the 1978-79 season gets under way, TV's best show remains unchanged: it is the daredevil, off-screen saga of Master Programmer Fred Silverman.
		The Great Silverman Snatch on network row At age 40, that rumpled Alexander of the television world, Fred Silverman, was running out of worlds to conquer.
	time.com /time/searchresults?query=programmer&venue=time&... (1137 words)

	TBIFOC - Laughing in a war zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Silverman, first off, the bus company want to deeply apologize for what happened back there.
		They didn't know about that little interruption of service as they like to call it, so out of the goodness of their hearts, you've gotten your bus fare refunded and three free tokens for future rides.
		Silverman, you'll be happy to know we'll set things straight up there, so you won't have to go altering any dresses any time soon for anything but the back brace and maybe for the insulin pump, okay?
	www.isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/007262.html (1073 words)

	Jane Pfeiffer - Who's Who in RCA VideoDisc
		Jane Pfeiffer came to RCA subsidiary NBC along with Fred Silverman in June 1978 as a consultant.
		She soon was given the job of CEO opposite Silverman as President of NBC.
		It was assumed that Silverman would lend his "golden touch" developed at ABC to shore up NBC's third-place network programming, while Pfeiffer would handle corporate administration.
	www.cedmagic.com /mem/whos-who/pfeiffer-jane.html (510 words)

	The Evolution of Scooby-Doo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1969, Fred Silverman, President of Children's Programming at CBS wanted to move away from the superhero cartoons he pushed for back in 1966.
		Silverman was not going to give up and he tried to find a way to keep the same concept, but also please the heads of CBS that Mystery's Five is kid friendly.
		This famous story continues to one fateful night when Silverman was flying back to Los Angeles to see what he and Barbera could do so CBS would produce the series.
	members.aol.com /howard217/epgs/evolution.html (862 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Scooby-Doo
		Fred Silverman, CBS honcho, was the impetus behind the creation of this long-running and very popular animated series.
		Ken Spears and Joe Ruby, then working as writers for Hanna-Barbera, fleshed out Silverman's idea, focusing on four young people (one of whom, Shaggy, was strongly reminiscent of the Gillis show's Maynard G. Krebs) and a large dog, traveling around the country in a van, solving mysteries wherever they went.
		Silverman added the finishing touches, making the dog the star and naming him after a nonsense phrase in Frank Sinatra's version of "Strangers in the Night" — Scooby-Doo.
	www.toonopedia.com /scooby.htm (570 words)

	"Behind the Camera: The Unofficial Story of ‘Three’s Company'"
		In 1977, ABC Television Network President Fred Silverman (portrayed by Tony and Golden Globe winner Brian Dennehy, “Death of a Salesman”) “greenlit” a racy new sitcom -- “Three’s Company” -- starring three unknown actors in Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter and Suzanne Somers who were given an actor’s opportunity of a lifetime.
		Golden Globe and Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy (“Death of a Salesman”) stars as Fred Silverman, the programming executive at ABC responsible for putting “Three’s Company” on the air, and — mirroring real life — newcomers Bret Anthony, Melanie Deanne Moore and Jud Tylor portray the three stars of the sitcom.
		Until, that is, ABC Programming Chief Fred Silverman (Brian Dennehy) decided to take a chance on what would soon become one of the biggest hits on television in the 1970s.
	jacksbistro.freeservers.com /nbcmovie.html (4599 words)

	Inside the Bermuda Triangle
		Rudy is behind the Camera while Fred Silverman and I are in our positions.
		Joachin sets up up while Fred places up the first still and examines it.
		As usual, I had a nice time, and Rudy, Joachin, and Fred were easy to get along with, and as you can see I could joke with Fred.
	www.bermuda-triangle.org /html/inside_the_bermuda_triangle.html (233 words)

	TVparty: HOW NBC GOT ITS GROOVE BACK
		he network recruited programming genius Fred Silverman away from the Alphabet Network he helped reach number one the previous year.
		NBC reintroduced their beloved peacock to usher them into the 80s (with the geometric "N" behind it) but of the new fall shows, only Sheriff Lobo and Buck Rogers would return for another year.
		Disney's Wonderful World moved to CBS in 1981 after 20 years at the big N. At season's end, Fred Silverman was replaced by a 34-year-old Brandon Tartikoff.
	www.tvparty.com /80nbc2.html (709 words)

	UCI Physics and Astronomy Newsletter
		Frederick Reines is Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, by Dennis Silverman
		Fred Reines and the Neutrino, by Jonas Schultz and Hank Sobel
		Historic Photos of Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan, and Recent Photos of Fred Reines and Sherry Rowland
	www.ps.uci.edu /physics/newsletter.html (399 words)

	Media Life - Letters to the Editor
		It was Tinker who was brought in to save NBC from its disastrous slide into the network cellar and who provided the basic building blocks for the network's rise.
		For example, although, as you note, Silverman was the one who green-lighted "Cheers," it was master-programmer Tinker who stayed with the show, despite it ranking dead last after its initial year.
		Missing from virtually all these accounts, however, is Fred Silverman's contribution to "Must-See TV." As I stated in my article, it was Silverman who first focused on building up NBC's Thursday nights with comedies and a drama, including, among other things, "Hill Street Blues." Which, curiously, was produced by Tinker's MTM Enterprises.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /features/letters.html (7107 words)

	Dreaming of Fred Silverman - TV Squad
		We also discussed Nick at Nite's "TV Land" and how it has a number of old-time favorites on it's schedule.
		So, with that in mind, I've decided I want to be Fred Silverman and program a typical 24-hour day on a "Classic Television" network.
		I'm assuming I can get copyright clearances to program all of these shows, and my goal is to come up with a schedule that will fit as many demographics as possible.
	www.tvsquad.com /2005/03/26/dreaming-of-fred-silverman (263 words)

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	Fred Silverman (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fred Silverman was born in 1937, and quickly grew up into the television...
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	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
		The Archive of American Television strives to preserve the rich history of television by videotaping interviews with the individuals who pioneered the medium.
		We have rare, in-depth interviews with those behind the scenes as well as television's biggest stars including: news legends Walter Cronkite, Don Hewitt, and David Brinkley, actors Alan Alda, Ossie Davis, and Mary Tyler Moore, writer/producers Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Aaron Spelling, and executives Fred Silverman, Sumner Redstone, and Ted Turner.
		By utilizing cutting-edge technology, this Archive will be a digital encyclopedia of television, accessible worldwide by students, historians, and the public.
	www.emmys.tv /foundation/archive/index.php (208 words)

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