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Former CBS President Thomas F. Leahy Dies Thomas F. Leahy, who was president of CBS in the late 1980s, died Friday (March 8) at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he was being treated for cancer. He was 64.
Leahy worked at CBS for 30 years, beginning as a salesman in 1962. He rose through the ranks of the network's sales department and was named president of the CBS Television Stations Division in 1977. In 1981, he became senior vice president of the CBS Broadcast group, overseeing the CBS entertainment and the Eye network. He served as president of CBS from 1986-89, a time when the network said goodbye to such long-running series as "Cagney & Lacey" and "Magnum, P.I." and launched others that would become staples of the network, including "Murphy Brown" and "Designing Women."
In 1990, Leahy was named president of CBS' new marketing division, a post he held until he left the network in 1992. Since then, he had been president of Studio Lane Productions, a program consultant for the Cablevision Corp. and a producer of TV movies on USA, Showtime and TNT. He was also chairman of the Broadway Association.
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