Leo Chaloukian, Emmy Award-Winning Sound Designer and Former TV Academy President, Dies at 97

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Leo Chaloukian, Emmy Award-Winning Sound Designer and Former TV Academy President, Dies at 97

Leo Chaloukian, a multi-Emmy Award-winning sound designer and former chair of the Television Academy, died July 18. He was 97. During his 60-year career in sound, Chaloukian won four national Emmys and two regional Emmys —working at Ryder Sound Service, a company he’d eventually become the sole owner of for most of his career. He worked on sound for National Geographic specials, David Wolper Productions documentaries and classic television s…