The Resume

(September 28, 1901-October 26, 1990)
Cigar merchant
Chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System (1929-83)
Member of the Television Hall of Fame
Created Museum of Television and Radio (1976)

Why he might be annoying:

He smoked cigars.
He was a compulsive womanizer.
He was obsessed with his business empire.
He married his second wife four days after divorcing his first one.
He prevented 'Gunsmoke' from being cancelled because it was his favorite show.
A few years after giving up control of CBS he schemed to oust the person who succeeded him and returned to CBS.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was responsible for helping to launch the careers of Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Frank Sinatra,Jack Benny,Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.
He turned a failing network of 22 radio stations into a vast broadcast empire with hundreds of radio and television affiliates,.

Credit: Seaman Duck

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [September] (Ranked: 9281901)
• I am from Chicago
• I Died in 1990 (Ranked: 89)
• I Probably Banged Gloria Vanderbilt
• I Probably Banged Zsa Zsa Gabor
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Time
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Male Cigar Smokers
• Members of the Television Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1)
• National Radio Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1988)
• Profiles 12251-12500 (Ranked: 12451)
• Top 100 Old Time Radio Moments of the 20th Century (Ranked: 30)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 13 Votes: 92.31% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 38 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 75 Votes: 78.67% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 57 Votes: 77.19% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 98 Votes: 59.18% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 162 Votes: 56.79% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 71 Votes: 53.52% Annoying