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 As the strikes went on,  he said,  WABC created new jingles promoting  The Strikebound Sound of 77 WABC,' and I had my own  Marty Grove' jingle to use on the shows I did. 

Grove later directed publicity for the advertising firm Foote, Cone   Belding, headed corporate communications and investor relations for 20th Century Fox in New York and Los Angeles and led marketing for Warner Bros. Television in Burbank (at Fox, he did marketing for its Movietone News library of newsreels as well).

Before studios routinely announced box office figures, Grove served from 1985-95 as an Entertainment Tonight consultant for a Monday feature that projected grosses, and he appeared frequently on ET as a film expert during this period.

Grove interviewed celebrities and filmmakers for THR's televised coverage of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and anchored the paper's TV coverage of the NATO/ShoWest theater owners conventions in Las Vegas from 1987-91.

Starting in 1988, he hosted half-hour talk show episodes about Hollywood and two-minute commentaries about movies for Movietime, the cable network that later became E! Entertainment; produced, wrote and hosted the series For Your Consideration about Oscar and Golden Globes contenders on Time Warner Cable in New York and L.A.; and was a film industry analyst for the Financial News Network.

During his career, Grove showed up on the NBC Nightly News, the CBS Evening News, ABC World News Tonight, Today, 20/20, CNBC's Power Lunch and Fox News programs was quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Washington Post, Sunday Times of London, Rolling Stone and Agence-France Presse.

Since 2008, he served as CEO and president of ZAMM.com, for which he wrote, produced and voiced hundreds of movie preview videos as part of a content partnership with Amazon.

A member of the WGA West, Grove sold screenplay pitches to Paramount and Columbia that he wrote and developed but that were not produced.

He also authored a novel set in the world of network television, 10 pseudonymous mystery novels and a half-dozen pop-culture paperbacks, including an authorized biography of John Travolta, an instant biography of Elvis Presley published within days of his 1977 death and profiles of The Beatles, The Osmonds, Henry Winkler and Paul McCartney.

Along the way, he still examined the estimated box office numbers every Sunday and the actuals every Monday.

In addition to his daughter, survivors include his wife of 55 years, Marjorie; son Geoffrey; daughter-in-law Hilary; granddaughter Reesa; and grandson Rogan.