Max Berry
Max Berry was an executive who served as vice president of broadcast engineering for Capital Cities/ABC for more than 20 years before retiring in 1989.
Max Berry was an executive who served as vice president of broadcast engineering for Capital Cities/ABC for more than 20 years before retiring in 1989.
Berry responsibilities included the design and installation of radio and television systems for the ABC Network and its owned stations. He also supervised the development of new products and the enhancement of existing products for new and innovative uses by ABC in news, sports and entertainment productions. He personally supervised projects that resulted in the first color slo-mo recorder (with Ampex), a wireless, handheld color camera (with Ampex) and a solid-state audio/video routing switcher (with the Grass Valley Group).
In addition, he was responsible for ABC's continuing advances with on-air graphics in the design of multi-color character generator (with Dubner Computer), the interface of graphics to sports scoreboard computer systems and the first system to enter news election service reports directly into a character generator system via computer control.
His professional accolades included the Television Engineering Achievement Award from the National Association of Broadcasters, which he received in April of 2000.
Berry died August 6, 2014.
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