Leonard H Goldenson was the founder and president of the United States-based television network American Broadcasting Company, from 1953 to 1986.
15 Facts About Leonard Goldenson
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Leonard Goldenson turned ABC into a media conglomerate, owning television and radio stations along with newspapers and book publishers.
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Leonard Goldenson was portrayed in the 2002 TNT movie Monday Night Mayhem by Eli Wallach.
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Leonard Goldenson was born to a Jewish family in Pennsylvania in 1905.
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Leonard Goldenson grew up in the town of Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Scottdale High School.
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Leonard Goldenson was educated at Harvard, and entered the entertainment industry in 1933 as an attorney for Paramount Pictures after graduating from Harvard Law School.
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Leonard Goldenson was hired to help reorganize United Paramount Theatres, Paramount's theater chain, which at the time was nearing bankruptcy.
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Leonard Goldenson rescued ABC by convincing his board of directors to buy the company from Noble for $25 million.
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Leonard Goldenson was instrumental in the sale of ABC to Capital Cities Communications in 1986, which at the time, was the largest non-oil merger in history.
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Leonard Goldenson's wife was Isabelle Charlotte Weinstein, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy.
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Leonard Goldenson, whose first-born daughter Cookie was born with cerebral palsy, co-founded United Cerebral Palsy in 1949 and used station WBKB to be the flagship station for the inaugural UCP telethon that year.
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Leonard Goldenson was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Leonard Goldenson was known for always flying economy class and never driving a new car.
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Leonard Goldenson died on December 27,1999, at the age of 94.
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Leonard Goldenson was survived by his wife and his two daughters: Loreen Goldenson Arbus and Maxine Goldenson.