Eric Ober is an American broadcasting executive who served as president of CBS News from 1990 to 1996 and Food Network from 1997 to 2000.A native of Brooklyn, Eric Ober is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A.).His successor at CBS News was Andrew Heyward.During the 2000s, Eric Ober has run a television production company in New York City while also serving as Chairman of the Board for Vault.com.
President, COO of bigChalk.com outside of Phila, PA. [February 2002]
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Member of Journalism Advisory Board, Queens College of the City University of New York; former member Board of Directors of the Associated Press. Started his career in journalism at the World Telegram and Sun.
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Served as President of CBS TV Stations after a term as Director of News at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, then of WCBS-TV in New York City. Became President of CBS network news.
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Graduated from Yale with B.A. in history.
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Subsequent executive positions with Scripps-Howard TV Productions, The Food Network, The Vault news website.
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Spent most of career with CBS-TV, rising to president, CBS-TV News with supervision over Dan Rather's newscasts and "60 Minutes." Depicted in latter role in The Insider (1999) by Stephen Tobolowsky as character "Eric Kluster."
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Crime Stories
1998-1999
TV Series documentary co-executive producer - 2 episodes
Greatest Trials of All Time
1998
TV Movie executive producer
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hercules: The Brave and the Bold
2013
Adult Hercules
Known for movies
Greatest Trials of All Time (1998) as Producer
Hercules: The Brave and the Bold (2013) as Adult Hercules
$250,000
