Dan Burke - FishbowlNY http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny Turning the Page For New York Media Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:57:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 ‘Broadcasting Pioneer,’ Former Cap Cities/ABC President Dan Burke Dies Throughout the first-half of the 1990s, Dan Burke was a prominent executive at ABC.  It wasn’t divine intervention that brought Burke to the top of the management chain. Burke started with Capital Cities in 1961 as general manager for WTEN-TV in Albany. Ultimately, he would become a high-ranking executive with Cap Cities.

Burke died this morning following complicating from Type I Diabetes. He was 82.

In 1986, Capital Cities acquired ABC, which maintained ownership until Disney bought the company a decade later.

“Dan was a broadcasting pioneer who along with Tom Murphy took a small company and a big dream, and grew it into a television giant.” WABC/Channel 7 anchor Bill Ritter tells FishbowlNY. “Their purchase of the much larger ABC was a surprise to everyone except those who knew Dan and Tom.”

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]]> Jerry Barmash http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/broadcasting-pioneer-former-cap-citiesabc-president-dan-burke-dies_b45557#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/broadcasting-pioneer-former-cap-citiesabc-president-dan-burke-dies_b45557 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/?p=45557 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:04:35 +0000