He is the son of Grant Tinker and the brother of Mark Tinker.

Grant Tinker is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

By 1982, Tartikoff and his new superior, the highly regarded former producer Grant Tinker, turned the network's fortunes around.

For it was Grant Tinker who created these high-priced free agents in the first place.

The American Film Institute's television committee was formed in 1983, and its first chairman, Grant Tinker, initiated the plans for the writers' workshops.

He managed to get an appointment with Grant Tinker at MTM to show this project.

Grant Tinker, a former chairman of the network, said leaving the city would be possible but not efficient.

"He convinced me to go out there in 1988 and introduced me to Grant Tinker, who took the idea under his wing," he continued.

Grant Tinker, the former NBC chairman under whose aegis the program had been developed, vowed that it would stay on the air "forever."

They are not Grant Tinker, with the $2,000 suit, the 32-inch waist and the Gucci loafers.