Bob Bennett

Bob Bennett launched the historic WCVB-TV in Boston that was called "America's finest television station by The New York Times" in 1981. Followed by his son Casey pioneering television productions of extreme sports in the late 1980's and High Definition TV series in the late 1990's. Beginning in 1971, WCVB-TV produced and broadcast 60 hours a week of original series and specials, including TV's first medical and law shows, with Dr. Tim Johnson and Harvard lawyer Arthur Miller; an ABC movie-of-the-week entitled "Summer Solstice" starring Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy; a half-hour situation comedy, "The Baxters", co-produced with Norman Lear; and another sitcom "Park Street Under" that allegedly was the precursor to the network hit "Cheers". Bob Bennett continued his visionary broadcasting career at Metromedia Broadcasting Inc. from 1981 through 1985 where his programming initiatives led to the creation of a nationwide Metromedia Network, believed by some in the industry to have been the forerunner of the Fourth Network instituted by 20th Century Fox after it bought Metromedia in 1985. Casey Bennett, whose early career included stints as a cameraman with ABC Sports and CNN, went on to make his own marks in the TV business. His company, Bennett Productions, Inc., was launched in Los Alamitos, California, in the early 1980s.