'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.”
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