Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Moore also founded MTM Enterprises, Inc. in 1969.

Grant Tinker, later President of NBC and MTM Enterprises, got his start as an assistant on the show.

He had a development deal with Newharts producers MTM Enterprises and persuaded them to buy the rights to produce a pilot for an American adaptation of the British sitcom The Young Ones.

The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16,, to April 1,.

Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Edward Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS.

He left Universal in 1978 to go to MTM Enterprises where he had greater scope for producing.

For the next decade, it was one of the most popular sitcoms in syndication, outperforming many much bigger prime time hits, including all the other MTM Enterprises sitcoms.

Speculative small investments in UK companies were followed by the purchase of the American media company MTM Enterprises, founded by Mary Tyler Moore and responsible for many US hit shows including Hill Street Blues.

Howard Hesseman was known to WKRPs production company, MTM Enterprises, from his recurring guest role as Mr. Plager on MTM's The Bob Newhart Show.

The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987.

Later, MTM Enterprises ( headed by actress Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband, Grant Tinker ) became the Studio Center's primary tenant, beginning in 1971.

It was produced by MTM Enterprises, which found success with Hill Street Blues around the same time.

The series was produced in association with CBS Productions ( now CBS Television Distribution ), Burt Reynolds Productions, and MTM Enterprises ( now 20th Television ).

The station come about when TVS was sold on 1 February 1993 to the American Company International Family Entertainment Inc. which included the ownership of MTM Enterprises.

The Family Channel did produce some UK original programming ( see below ), but heavily relied upon content from MTM Enterprises / TVS archive and imports from the USA.

** US rights are with 20th Television ( successor-in-interest to MTM Enterprises, which co-produced the first two seasons )

It owns programming from other production companies, including MTM Enterprises, Metromedia Producers Corporation, Four Star Productions and select programming from New World Communications / Genesis Entertainment and Cannell Entertainment.

* The Pretender ( 1996 – 1997 MTM Enterprises, 1997-2000 TCFTV ) ( in association with NBC Studios )

This was the only animated production from MTM Enterprises ( although The Duck Factory-a sitcom set in an animation production company-included cartoon segments, and the closing credits of many MTM series included animated clothing and accessories superimposed on Mimsie the Cat ).

MTM Enterprises ( later known as MTM Enterprises, Inc .) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS.

Member of " Raggs " then later, " The Metro All Stars ", recording two albums, one on MTM Records, and performing twice on " Star Search ".

Victory was later reincorporated as MTM Television Distribution, which in turn was folded into 20th Television after News Corporation bought MTM.

Tinker later regretted leaving MTM, believing that the company started to decline without him.

MTM Enterprises would later produce popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues and St.

Two years later, in 1999, again on MTM Music and again working with producer Jim Vallance, the band could release their third CD called " The Grey Album ", where drummer Sammy Mangiamele replaced Bobby Chouinard, who could not finish his work on that album.

In March 1992, the studio once again became CBS Studio Center, when MTM ( which was later bought by 20th Century Fox's parent company, News Corporation, which also owns the Fox network and several Fox affiliates, a number which were formerly affiliated with CBS ) sold back its interest in the studio lot to CBS.

Bochco moved to 20th Century Fox ( which now owns the MTM library ) where he co-created and produced L. A. Law ( 1986 – 1994 ) which aired on NBC.

MTM produced a number of successful television programs during the 1970s and 1980s.

* The Pretender ( 1996-2000 ) ( Note: Only the first season was produced by MTM, with 20th Century Fox Television assuming the series thereafter.

The show was produced by Bruce Paltrow for MTM Enterprises.

Following the success of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the series ' production company MTM Productions would develop the popular The Bob Newhart Show.

MTM specialised in the syndicated television market in which programmes made independently and sold to the major American television networks.

Spanish builders MTM, MACOSA and Euskalduna and the American Babcock & Wilcox built 213 more between 1953 and 1960, with only minor detail differences such as double chimneys, Llubera sanders, ACFI feedwater heaters or oil-burning.

After his divorce from Moore in 1981 Tinker left MTM Enterprises to become the chairman and CEO of then perennial last-place American television network ( in terms of Nielsen ratings and profits ) NBC.

In January 1980, following the success of several sitcoms featuring working women, including the groundbreaking Mary Tyler Moore Show, Butler and Tinker, now head of MTM, revived the concept.

Grant Almerin Tinker ( born January 11, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut ) is the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer.

Tinker married Moore in 1962, and in 1969 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises.

While creating MTM Enterprises, Tinker hired Room 222 writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

In the MTM logo shown after the closing credits, Mimsie the Cat says what the Darryls shouted in the series finale.

Butler pitched the idea to Grant Tinker before he was head of MTM, but Tinker felt the series was ahead of its time.

Brooks and Burns were hired by CBS programming executive Grant Tinker to create a series together with MTM Productions for Tinker's wife Mary Tyler Moore which became The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

In 1974, when the MTM spinoff series, Rhoda premiered, Walker joined the cast.

The series was filmed at CBS / MTM Studios, which was known as CBS / Fox Studios when the show began.

CBS retained full ownership of the series while MTM syndicated the series in the United States.

Despite the show's connection with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, none of that series ' other regular characters ever appeared ( and were not referred to onscreen ); the only other " crossover " character was MTM recurring character Flo Meredith ( Eileen Heckart ) ( Mary Richards ' aunt ), a churlish veteran journalist with whom Lou had had a brief fling while in Minneapolis, and who appeared on a single episode of Lou Grant.

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