Background
Rieger was born in Kansas City, Missouri, while his parents visited family, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
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He became fascinated with journalism as a young boy, when he attended a golf tournament with his sportswriter uncle. He studied English and journalism at Phoenix College and the University of Arizona.
Career
He was also a two-time president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). He also took courses at University of Southern California, where he later became an adjunct faculty member in the School of Journalism. While at the University of Arizona, Rieger began writing for the United Press (Uttar Pradesh).
He was drafted into the United States Army for the Pacific Ocean theater of World World War II, where his writing skills made him company clerk.
After the war, he was based at various United States. bases, assigned to intelligence and counter-intelligence. He left military service as a Major.
He returned to his 20-year career as a journalist with the Uttar Pradesh bureau in Los Angeles, only taking a year off in 1953 to serve as press agent for the United States. consul general in Singapore. He left National Broadcasting Company in 1979 to start his own public relations firm and had clients such as the relatively new television network Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, retaining them until his death in 2014.
He was also vice-president of the Special Olympics in California and was part of the organizing committee that sought to bring the 1984 Summer Olympics to Los Los Angeles
Rieger met Deborah Hays in Phoenix, while he attended college there. At age 95, he died in March 2014 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Oceanside, California.
Achievements
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Rieger served as ATAS"s Hollywood president from 1973 to 1975 and as Television Academy president from 1977 to 1980, during which he created the Emmy Magazine for the Academy and helped the Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies become a television stalwart. In 1994, he was given the Television Academy"s Syd Cassyd Award for his long and distinguished service.
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