Obituary.(Thomas F. Leahy of CBS Television Network)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 2002 by Alleyne, P. Llanor

Thomas F. Leahy, a former president of CBS Television, Network, died March * from complications due to cancer. He was 64.

An engineer turned broadcaster, Leahy confessed in the Jan. 23, 1978, issue of Broadcasting that he "applied cold" for an NBC-TV page position in 1958 because it worked best with his engineering course schedule. After graduating from New York's Manhattan College in 1959, he took a sales position with an aviation company and served in the U.S. Army Reserve. But a year later, confident that he could make a career in television sales, Leahy was back in broadcasting as an account executive for WABC-TV New York.

During the 1960s, Leahy was on the sale staffs of WABC-TV, WGN-TV Chicago (New York office) and WCBS-TV where he was...

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