Irwin Segelstein

All that impressed NBC's Irwin Segelstein, who ordered more shows and had the name changed to Black Sheep Squadron so people would know it wasn't a children's show.

Turns out the red-haired guy was Irwin Segelstein, then president of CBS Records.The next thing Gandy knew she was associate director of special markets for CBS.During her two years at the company, she worked with most of the era's major African-American recording stars.

Irwin Segelsteinformer Vice Chairman, NBC, Inc.

Irwin Segelstein, who worked for an ad agency in the fifties before joining CBS and later becoming vice-chairman of NBC, said that the movie conveyed "a loaded depiction" of network schemers."I don't think the people involved had the sense that they were doing something terrible," he said.The lapses kind of sneaked up on them, and "by degrees" they got "sucked into it," he went on."In your opening scenes, they're already heavies, and they're heavies all the way to the end."To say that the quiz-show scandal represented an absence of ethics "is a little heavy," he added.
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Even Groucho Marx was fed jokes, Segelstein said.
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Segelstein asked, "Do you really think these people come out unrehearsed on 'Oprah,' on 'Donahue'?"He noted that "What's My Line?"
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"They try to make the shows more interesting," Irwin Segelstein said."Is that the same as coaching?

All that impressed NBC's Irwin Segelstein, who ordered more shows and had the name changed to Black Sheep Squadron so people would know it wasn't a children's show.