Sandy Kavanaugh

Sandy Kavanaugh was the producer for Nickelodeon's first original series, Pinwheel, which premiered in 1977. She was also Nickelodeon's first director of programming.
Kavanaugh is credited with coming up with the name for Nickelodeon. After Dr. Vivian Horner asked her co-workers to help come up with a list of possible names for the network, Sandy Kavanaugh proposed "Nickelodeon," even though she wasn't fully satisfied with it. In an interview, she recalled:
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