News exec Gordon Manning dead at 89
Posted Sep 8th 2006 11:47AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: NBC, CBS, News, Talent
It's not often that TV news executives are well-known, but Gordon Manning was one of those people.
Manning was with NBC and CBS news for several years, involved in many of the top news stories of the 20th century, including the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989 for NBC, CBS' Watergate and Nixon's trip to China coverage in 1972, and even set up an interview between NBC's Tom Brokaw and Mikail Gorbachev in 1987, just before his meeting with President Reagan.
Manning was famous for something else we all see now: the color-coded election night map! NBC first did that in 1976.
Manning died Wednesday in Westport, CT of a heart attack.
Tags: cbs news, china, election night, gorbachev, nbc news, NbcNews, network news, presidential election, reagan, tom brokaw, walter cronkite
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