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Frederick William Ziv (August 17, 1905 – October 13, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American broadcasting producer and syndicator who was considered as the father of television first-run syndication and once operated the nation's largest independent television production company.
Oct 18, 2001 · Frederick W. Ziv, a pioneer in television syndication who produced such indelible series as “Highway Patrol” and “Sea Hunt,” died Saturday at home in his native Cincinnati. He was 96.
In his two-hour-plus interview, Frederic Ziv (1905-2001) discusses his start in print advertising. He then details the founding of one of the first and largest syndication companies in television history.
Frederick W. Ziv was born on 17 August 1905 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a producer, known for Your Favorite Story (1953), Highway Patrol (1955) and Boston Blackie (1951). He died on 13 October 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
- Producer, Additional Crew
- August 17, 1905
- Frederick W. Ziv
- October 13, 2001
Oct 17, 2001 · Frederic W. Ziv, known as the “father of television syndication” and for producing such series as “Bat Masterson,” “Sea Hunt,” “Highway Patrol,” and “The Cisco Kid,” died at his...
Apr 8, 2014 · Ziv had been founded in 1948 as a subsidiary of Frederick Ziv’s radio syndication company, which he launched in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1937. Ziv’s second television series, Easy Aces, was an adaptation of Goodman and Jane Ace‘s earlier radio program.
Oct 22, 2001 · Frederic W. Ziv, 96, the pioneering radio and TV syndicator (The Cisco Kid, Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt and the proverbial host of others), died Oct. 13 at his home in Cincinnati.