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People who retired too soon.
Johnny Carson
Walter Cronkite
Peter Mansbridge
All three could have worked another five years. And all were replaced by inferiority.
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cash wrote:
Johnny Carson
Walter Cronkite
Peter Mansbridge
All three could have worked another five years. And all were replaced by inferiority.
The first one is open for debate. Johnny Carson was doing two or three shows a week and getting killed by Arsenio Hall in the demos that mattered. Then Jay Leno came along, outlasted Arsenio, and after losing to Letterman for two years, beat him for the next 14 in a row, then took it back to number one for another 4 years after the ill-fated Jay Leno Show. He also hosted more episodes than Carson.
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- Grant, Iain
- Patterson, Dale
Clarification: the foregoing was intended as recognition of pioneering work that preceded the current moderator, who continues to do a fabulous job
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I can definitely think of a few people I worked with who didn't retire soon enough!
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Cronkite had no choice. Back then, CBS had a mandatory retirement policy at 65. Reagan fixed that a few years later.
Too bad. 'Cause If any business could have benefited from mandatory retirement (over the last 2 decdes), it's broadcasting.
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