His Vision Expanded NBC (Broadcasting and Cable)

Executive Quote and Information Service : EQUIS,  January, 2008  

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Former NBC Universal Chairman and CEO Bob Wright has spent the past 20 years transforming NBC from a broadcast network into a global multimedia powerhouse, ranging from Spanish-language Telemundo to the women's Web site iVillage. Wright also led NBC's move into cable with CNBC and MSNBC. And later, when NBC acquired Vivendi Universal Entertainment, he snagged USA and Sci Fi.

He came in when GE purchased NBC in 1986, when the network was flying high in large part because of the programming prowess of Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff, and the CEO he replaced, Grant Tinker. ...

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