Ben Cooper; TV Log Publisher
Ben Cooper, who reshaped a struggling television publication into TV Fanfare Publications, which produces the TV Logs and TV Movie News found at supermarket checkout lines across the country, has died.
A spokesman for his firm said this week that Cooper was 71 when he died Sept. 6 in an Encino hospital of a heart ailment.
At his death, the free publications were produced in 6,000 television markets across the United States from 39 offices.
Cooper’s philanthropies were wide-ranging and included the Guardians, the United Jewish Fund and the San Fernando Valley Counseling Service. He served on the Board of Trustees of the City of Hope, where he was named Man of the Year in 1970.
He is survived by his wife, Rita, a daughter, Linda, and two sisters.
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