TV & VIDEO - Feb. 27, 1987
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Long-time public-TV supporter Herbert Schmertz is a serious candidate to become the president of flagship public-TV station WNET in New York, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Schmertz, well-known as the Mobil Corp. public-relations executive who seldom hesitates to bring the oil giant’s public relations pressure to bear when the media does something to affront Mobil, would succeed John Jay Iselin.
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