Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Richard “Dick” Block, the former president of Kaiser Broadcasting who went on to found 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.
As executive VP of the TV station division of Metromedia, he negotiated an agreement with Ted Turner’s CNN that would give his stations regular broadcast access to national and international video news coverage.
Block created a consortium of UHF broadcasters and lobbied the FCC for parity between UHF and VHF, which opened the door for a fourth network.
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