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Article: Early signs show the way.(James Leaders Loper of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences)(Column)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
- Article date:
- September 2, 1996
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In childhood, James Loper saw a sign that a career in broadcasting was his destiny.
How could he miss it? The call letters of a local radio station blinked outside his bedroom window like a veritable Morse code message. "It went K...O...Y, then KOY. I was brainwashed, actually," the Arizona native recalls.
It didn't take long before Loper--who used to press his nose against the radio station window and pluck old wire copy out of the trash bin--figured out how to get behind those blinking lights.
Now he is shining lights of his own, and on the very industry that he wanted to join years ago. Loper is executive director of the Academy of Television Arts & ...