- Eric Ober is known for Hercules: The Brave and the Bold (2013), Crime Stories (1998) and Landmark American Trials: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1999).
- Subsequent executive positions with Scripps-Howard TV Productions, The Food Network, The Vault news website.
- Spent most of career with CBS-TV, rising to president, CBS-TV News with supervision over Dan Rather's newscasts and "60 Minutes." Depicted in latter role in The Insider (1999) by Stephen Tobolowsky as character "Eric Kluster."
- Graduated from Yale with B.A. in history.
- Served as President of CBS TV Stations after a term as Director of News at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, then of WCBS-TV in New York City. Became President of CBS network news.
- Member of Journalism Advisory Board, Queens College of the City University of New York; former member Board of Directors of the Associated Press. Started his career in journalism at the World Telegram and Sun.
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