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Dick Block, Veteran TV Executive and USC Professor, Dies at 97
Richard "Dick" Block, the former president of Kaiser Broadcasting who founded Block Communications and teach at USC, died Sept. 30. He was 97.
As president of Kaiser Broadcasting, he built independent TV stations in top markets including Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Francisco. He was an adjunct assistant professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts until the time of his death, and had also taught at his alma mater Stanford and at UCLA. Until 2018, he produced College Career Day events around the country for the NATPE Educational Foundation.
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