Scope and Contents

Vice President Gerald Levin Files cover the period of 1979 to 1983 and focus on the finances and operations of the Video Group and the companies within it. While Levin mainly served as Video Group vice president during this period, he also served as Home Box Office (HBO) chairman from 1974 to 1979 and 1982 to 1983. Since the majority of materials focus on his work as Video Group vice president, these materials have their own series rather than being included with his HBO-focused materials. Included in this series are special equities investment reports, memoranda on the sale of WOTV stations, financial statements, re-estimate reports, financial reports, Grand Rapids Broadcast Division and Time-Life Broadcast financial reports, press releases, agreements, revenue reports, balance sheets, event booklets, legal filings, clippings, press kits, annual securities reports on American Family Corporation, reports on retirement income plans, Time-Life Broadcast strategic plans, WOTV transmitter review reports, Time-Life Films budgets, TV Cable Week reports, issues of  TV Cable Week, lists of presentation attendees, magazine prototypes, outlines of acquisition deals, presentation pamphlets, lists of employee contracts, clippings, profit and loss statements, non-theatric market reports, presentation outlines,  Search for Alexander the Great scripts, and correspondence. The correspondence included in this series discuss bonuses, appropriations, the sale and purchase of WOTV, finances, revenue, sales, national cable convention, budgets, project pitch, new acquisitions, contract modification proposals, contract terminations, five-year plans, monthly and weekly activity updates, operating incomes, project overviews, project reviews, and distribution plan.