A former chairman of the NBC television network, Scott presided during the mid-1960s, when color broadcasting was starting to become popular. No one really wanted to commit to paying the costs for upgrading the network’s facilities to full time color, but Scott pushed it through anyway, convincing not only NBC’s corporate parent, RCA, but also pressuring the movie studios to produce more programs on color film.
The network’s “color schedule,” begun in 1965, resulted in the slogan, “The Full Color Network”. That led to the NBC Peacock, which still graces NBC today. Scott died March 12 of pneumonia in Carmel, Calif., at age 84.