Robert Wood (television executive)

Robert Dennis Wood (c. 1925 Boise, Idaho – May 20, 1986 Santa Monica, California) was an American television executive who was president of CBS from 1969 to 1976. He initiated the network's rural purge in the early 1970s, which influenced much of American television at the time. The purge canceled long-running and popular rural-oriented shows like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies in order to introduce more urban-oriented shows targeted at the youth market, such as All in the Family, which reshaped American television by depicting issues previously considered unsuitable for a U.S. network television comedy.

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