His father returned to Germany, however, in 1938 to recruit spies for French counterintelligence services, and his name ended up on the Nazi most-wanted list.
[1] Baruch was hired in 1943 as an engineer at Empire Broadcasting, and later as an ad salesman at New York's DuMont Network affiliate and with the Los Angeles Times's Consolidated Television Film Sales in the eastern United States.
[1] Viacom was spun off from CBS in 1971 amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies.
He took the title of chairman of Viacom in 1983, and later acquired Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, which brought networks including MTV, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel and VH1 into the portfolio.
[1] In 2007, Baruch wrote a memoir entitled Television Tightrope: How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS and Fathered Viacom.