When did the term "show runner" become popular?

Funny enough, it was exactly one year ago today that the previous Thread on the topic got it’s final reply.

In that Thread, zombywoof quotes the OED which gives 1989 as the first citation for the term:

Colibri cites Wikipedia for clarification of the term:

Most posters responding to that Thread agree they first started hearing the term in the past 10 to 20 years.