TV Week asks, Bob & Sue Wright answers

So another interview with former NBC Universal head peacock Bob Wright has popped up this time with TV week and further down in the interview Bob's wife Suzanne joins in to talk about their never ending effort to educate us all about autism. Wonder if Sue still wears her NBC peacock pin? -NEIL YOSHIDA TelevisionWeek: Let's put ourselves in a time machine and take you back to 1986, when you took over and Grant Tinker was just leaving NBC. You'd had some experience with Cox, but otherwise it was at GE -- in GE Financial if I recall -- and so this obviously was a whole new animal. I'm just wondering what kind of trepidations, challenges, fears you might have had coming into the job. Bob Wright: I spent three and a half years at Cox and I was executive vice president of Cox Broadcasting and president of Cox Cable. So I wasn't unassociated with the broadcasting portion of the business. ... Down in Atlanta, where the headquarters were, we also had WSB, which was one of the most outstanding television stations in the country at that time, and had been an NBC affiliate all the way up until the Iran hostage [crisis]. They didn't switch because of Ted Koppel, they switched about that time because of programming deterioration at NBC. The Wright Era: Q&A with Bob Wright [TV Week]