Hank Rieger

Henry Rieger, Jr. (September 20, 1918 – March 5, 2014) was an American publicist and journalist. He was also a two-time president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS).

Early years Rieger was born in Kansas City, Missouri, while his parents visited family, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He studied English and journalism at Phoenix College and the University of Arizona. He also took courses at USC, where he later became an adjunct faculty member in the School of Journalism.

He left NBC in 1979 to start his own public relations firm and had clients such as the relatively new television network ESPN, retaining them until his death in 2014. At age 95, he died in March 2014 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Oceanside, California.