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Leo Chaloukian Dies: Former Televisioni Academy President Was 97

Leo Chaloukian Dies: Former Televisioni Academy President Was 97

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Emmy-winning sound designer Leo Chaloukian, icon behind Hollywood classics, dies at 97

Leo Chaloukian, the multiple Emmy- and Oscar-winning sound designer, sound executive and former chairman of the Television Academy, died on July 18, the Academy announced Wednesday. He was 97.

Chaloukian remained professionally active into his 80s, having begun his recording career in 1954 at Ryder Sound Service, where he became an award-winning re-recording mixer and eventually sole owner in 1976. In 1997, he sold the company to the Soundelux Entertainment Group and became SVP of the company.

In 2000, Liberty Media Group acquired Soundelux, which became Ascent Media Group, Creative Sound Services, and later a division of Discovery Communications known as CSS Studios LLC. Chaloukian remained the company's VP of Business Development, representing the features and TV divisions, and retired shortly after the company's spinoff in 2014 to become Todd Soundelux.