The HistoryMakers video oral history with Michael Jack.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 29 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312769
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Michael Jack
Michael Jack
Other authors / contributors:Jack, Michael, 1951- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2007 September 28.
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Summary:Television station manager Michael Jack was born on June 6, 1951 in Berlin, Germany. In 1977, Jack worked for WABC-TV in New York. Jack moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1980, serving as an account executive for ABC sales until 1981 when he became a national sales manager at KGO-TV in San Francisco. He was promoted to local sales manager at KGO and remained at the station until he moved to Los Angeles in 1986, becoming Capital Cities' National Sales Office sales manager. In 1996, Jack joined NBC, working for Los Angeles' KNBC as vice president of sales. Three years later, Jack became president and general manager of Columbus, Ohio's WCMH-TV, an NBC station. In 2002, Jack became president and general manager of WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. The same year, Jack was named NBC's vice president of Diversity. Jack was president and general manager of NBC New York until he retired in 2015.