I think the only people still there that were there in 87 is Murdoch himself. Anyway It didn't stop them from pulling the plug on 'Married with Children'. Mercifully.
But everybody in management now has joined a Fox that in many ways was synonymous with The Simpsons. The article points out many of the writers grew up watching the show, figure it's pretty similar for a lot of management too. Married with Children only made it 10 years (and ended 9 years ago, man is time flying), and really they only kept it that long to make some bigt milestones the ratings had been in the toilet for a while. The Simpsons, with all its flaws, is still pulling the ratings and the revenue, but assuming that ever stops I think its going to be hard for anybody but Murdoch (no sissy emotionalist by any definition) to pull the plug.