Peter dunn cbs biography of michael

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A fair number of people follow a parent into the television business. But very few quite literally follow in a parent’s footsteps, as Peter Dunn has at CBS.

His father, John, was an engineer for WCBS New York and the network, working out of the same broadcast building on West 57th Street in Manhattan where the younger Dunn is now based.

Peter makes a point of often entering the building from its further-out 11th Avenue entrance, same as his dad did decades before.

His father’s love for CBS struck Dunn at a young age.

“Any time you’d come into our house, no matter when, CBS would be on,” he said, noting that he’d typically find his dad tinkering behind the TV in an effort to get the best possible picture. “He just loved CBS.”

Today’s television business is vastly different than when John Dunn was plying his trade, an