Robert prather certainly spoke his mind in the buttoned-up corporate world, back when he was president of Gray Television. And one expects an even greater display of unfettered bluntness, as well as the typical bevy of keen insights, in his new independent venture. While corporate chiefs rarely speak their piece in public, Prather always seemed happy to do so-whether it was by blasting NBC for its ill-fated Jay Leno primetime experiment in 2009 ("I got a call the next day from the head of NBC," he says sheepishly), calling out the networks for their "outrageous" retrans demands or ripping his own industry for having two separate mobile DTV initiatives. "I like to say what's on my mind," Prather admits. "I don't like corporate-speak. I read press releases all the time and laugh at them. Honesty is the best policy-it doesn't hurt you to say what you think about things."
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