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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Innovator of TV news graphics dies

What would television news be without graphics? We owe it all to this pioneer who has passed on:

Ben Blank, who as graphics director for CBS and later ABC television news introduced the concept of using logolike images behind anchors as signatures for major news coverage, died on Feb. 3 at his home in Teaneck, N.J. He was 87. READ MORE

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