Wow! Who Do I Think I am? Part 29

Niles Trammell

Colonel Leander Newton Trammell’s grandson, Niles Trammell, born in Marietta, became president of one of the most popular companies, and maybe one of the most powerful and influential, NBC. He was the president when National Broadcasting Corp extended their airwaves for television. But many would say he made his mark when, before he was president, when he signed up the radio program Amos & Andy's creators and writers Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll (notice that the cast members mentioned Marietta, Georgia, often – I don’t know for certain but I think it was in the originator contract, probably written by Niles Trammell, Marietta native.

Amos & Andy was on the radio from 1928 to 1955 and on TV from 1951 to 1953. Ironically CBS carried the TV show, not NBC.