James T. Aubrey, Jr.

James Thomas Aubrey, Jr. (December 14, 1918–September 3, 1994) was an American television and film executive. President of the CBS Television Network during the early 1960s, he put some of television's most successful series, including Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies, on the air and consequently CBS dominated American television: during the 1963-1964 season, CBS had fourteen of the fifteen top-rated prime-time series. The New York Times Magazine in 1964 called him "a master of programming whose divinations led to successes that are breathtaking."

Bibliography

• Val Adams. "Benny to Return to N.B.C. Network". The New York Times. September 26, 1963. 71. (Aubrey and Benny's dispute)
• Val Adams. "C.B.S. Ousts Aubrey as TV President: Unexplained Move Stuns Industry–Posts Goes to John A. Schneider". The New York Times. March 1, 1965. 1.
• Val Adams. "C.B.S. Relents: Ignores Own Warning on Spiraling Costs". The New York Times. April 26, 1964. X17. (Three year NFL deal)
• Val Adams. "C.B.S.-TV to Pay $28.2 Million For 2-Year Pro Football Rights". The New York Times. January 25, 1964. 1. (CBS buys NFL game rights)
• Val Adams. "Head of C.B.S.-TV Quits in Dispute". The New York Times. December 9, 1959. 1. (Aubrey appointed CBS president)
• Val Adams. "New C.B.S. Series to Lose Houseman". The New York Times. July 26, 1963. 53. (Houseman leaves the new series, six months after it was announced)
• Val Adams. "Second Sponsor to Drop Winchell". The New York Times. December 17, 1956. 42. (Aubrey goes to ABC)
• Associated Press. "Networks Offer Definition of Sex." The New York Times. May 12, 1962. 51. (Congressional hearings; Aubrey confronted with 'bosoms' quotation)
• "Aubrey of C.B.S. Discounts Rumors He Will Head Fox". The New York Times. July 21, 1962. 11.
• Peter Bart. Fade Out: The Scandalous Final Days of MGM. New York: William Morrow, 1990. ISBN 0688084605.
• Burt A. Folkart. "James Aubrey Jr., Former Head of CBS and MGM, Dies". Los Angeles Times. September 11, 1994. 1.
• Jack Gould. "A.B.C. Plans New TV Format For Its 'Arrest and Trial' Show". The New York Times. December 26, 1962. 5. (Aubrey and Houseman working together)
• A. Grossman. "The Smiling Cobra". Variety VLife. June-July 2004. 68-73, 78. (Profile of Aubrey)
• David Halberstam. The Powers That Be. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. ISBN 0394503813 (About CBS and other media companies)
• "James T. Aubrey". Current Biography. March 1972.
• Robert Metz. CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1975. ISBN 087223407X
• Martin Kasindorf. "How now, Dick Daring?". The New York Times Magazine. September 10, 1972. 54+. (Aubrey at MGM)
• "The Lion and the Cobra". Time Magazine. November 12, 1973. 110+. (Aubrey leaves MGM)http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,944683,00.html
• Merle Miller. Only You, Dick Daring! Or, How to Write One Television Script and Make $50,000,000: A True-life Adventure. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1964.
• Eric Pace. "James Aubrey Jr., 75, TV and film executive". The New York Times. September 12, 1994. D10.
• "Princeton Confers 624 Degrees Today". The New York Times. June 17, 1941. 19. (Aubrey's graduation)
• "The Return of Smiling Jim". Time Magazine. October 31, 1969. 80. (Aubrey becomes MGM chief)http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,839128,00.html?internalid=related
• Leonard Wallace Robinson. "After the Yankees What?: A TV Drama". The New York Times Magazine. November 15, 1964. 44+
• Paul Rosenfield. "Aubrey: A Lion in Winter". Los Angeles Times. April 27, 1986. Calendar Magazine, 1.
• Richard F. Shepard. "C.B.S.-TV Names No. 2 Executive". The New York Times. May 23, 1959. 49. (Aubrey becomes CBS vice president)
• Robert Slater. This . . . Is CBS: A Chronicle of Sixty Years. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988. ISBN 0139192344
• Liz Smith. "Hot TV Rumor: Return of the 'Smiling Cobra'". San Francisco Chronicle. May 9, 1986. 81.
• Sally Bedell Smith. In All His Glory : The Life of William S. Paley, the Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. ISBN 0671617354
• "Uprising at MGM". Time Magazine. December 27, 1971. 49. (Producers and directors unhappy with Aubrey's cuts to their films)http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,905617,00.html