James Thomas Aubrey, Jr.

James Thomas Aubrey, Jr. (December 14, 1918 September 3, 1994) was a leading American television and film executive. President of the CBS television network during the early 1960s, he put some of television's most enduring series on the air, including Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies. Under Aubrey, CBS dominated American television the way General Motors and General Electric dominated their industries. The New York Times Magazine in 1964 called Aubrey "a master of programming whose divinations led to successes that are breathtaking." Despite his successes in television, Aubrey's abrasive personality and oversized ego "Picture Machiavelli and Karl Rove at a University of Colorado football recruiting party" wrote Variety in 2004 led to his firing from CBS amid charges of improprieties

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James Thomas Aubrey, Jr. (December 14, 1918 - September 3, 1994) was a leading American television and film executive. President of the CBS television network during the early 1960s, he put some of television's most enduring series on the air, including Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies. Under Aubrey, CBS dominated American television the way General Motors and General Electric dominated their industries. The New York Times Magazine in 1964 called Aubrey "a master of programming whose divinations led to successes that are breathtaking." Despite his successes in television, Aubrey's abrasive personality and oversized ego - "Picture Machiavelli and Karl Rove at a University of Colorado football recruiting party" wrote Variety in 2004 - led to his firing from CBS amid charges of improprieties