Background
He grew up in Fana as a son of Christian journalist Arthur Bjarne Berg, and was a journalist in Dagbladet and Bergens Tidende before he was hired in television 2.
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Bjarne Berg
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He is best known as news editor of television 2 and from the companies Vizrt and Hardball. He was promoted to news editor in the television channel. He was central in building up the channel"s news backbone television 2 Nyhetene, and also helped build up the Storm Weather Center to support the channel"s weather forecasts.
He worked in television 2 from 1992 to 2000.
He later became director of the graphics company Vizrt in 2001. The company invested in association football players, which delivered players to Saskatchewan Brann.
The sporting success waned over the next years. In 2010, at the general assembly, he demanded the resignation of the board.
He was also an active swimmer, and swimming coach and administrator.
He set two Norwegian records around 1970. In the 100 metre butterfly in August 1969 with 1.02,3 minutes, and in the 200 metre butterfly in August 1970 with 2.16,6 minutes. He represented the club Bergens South Carolina.
Berg died in May 2010.
He was buried from the Street John"s Church, Bergen.
