Former CBS President Frank Stanton Checks Out

ONE of Les Moonves' many predecessors Frank Stanton passed away over the Holiday weekend at his home in Boston. From 1946 to 1973, they operated as probably the greatest team in the history of broadcasting, making CBS, for a time, the most powerful communications company in the world, and the most prestigious. It was under Dr. Stanton and Mr. Paley that CBS, mixing entertainment programming with high-quality journalism and dashes of high culture, earned its reputation as the Tiffany Network. As a brilliant corporate builder and a technologically minded executive, Dr. Stanton — everybody used the “doctor” — played a pivotal role in CBS’s rise. He did so despite a relationship with Mr. Paley that was often strained and an object of puzzlement to those around them. Frank Stanton, Broadcasting Pioneer, Dies at 98 [NYT]