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W. Russell Barry, Former Top Television Executive at Fox and Turner, Dies at 84

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W. Russell Barry, a former president of 20th Century Fox Television and chairman of Turner Program Services, died Aug. 26 of pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, his daughter Sharon announced.

He was 84. A Brooklyn native and 1957 graduate of Dartmouth College, Barry landed a job in 1961 selling radio ads for CBS in Chicago and then New York, then supervised network AM stations during their conversion to all-news.

In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles to take a job as vp and GM for KNX-TV. From there he joined Fox as vp network sales and ultimately became president of 20th Century Fox Television, responsible for the production and worldwide distribution of network and syndicated programming.

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