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DAVID BERGEN PASSES AWAY (As Reported February 25, 2004 in the CGC Communicator) |
David Bergen, formerly of KWHY-TV, and more recently with NBC Burbank, has passed away. Anyone wishing to post a brief statement about David on this page may do so by sending a message to Steve Blodgett. Email to steve@earthsignals.com.
The following approved obituary was sent to us by Tom Piskura on Thursday, February 26th:
David Andrew Bergen, “Buz”
Born, David A. Piskura, July 17, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio, died February 22, 2004 of complications caused by cancer, at Tarzana Medical Center, Tarzana, California.
Bergen was a highly skilled television and electronics engineer. He attended James Ford Rhodes High School, on Cleveland’s West Side, and he started his career at WEWS-TV in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960. During his career, he served as senior engineer and project director for the NBC Network; he was operations manager for KWHY-TV, an all business news station in Los Angeles, he was also a project manager for the Telemundo Television Network, and was president and part owner of Global Digital Broadcasting, Inc.
Bergen served with distinction as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
His wife Rachael, three daughters, Deanne, Heather and Dana, survive him. He is the brother of Carol, Thomas F., and Mary Lou Piskura and the son of Andrew and Dorothy Piskura.
Open services were held Thursday, February 26th at 12:45 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 1522 Tujunga Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
From Jeffrey A. Brown:
Just a short note to show my respect and gratitude to one of the nicest people I have ever known, David Bergen. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him as a Broadcast Engineer at KWHY-TV 22 Los Angeles from 1999-2001. He was always incredibly great to work with, very professional, someone you would always be proud to say was your friend. .He will be missed by all, especially myself, as he helped in a way that I could never thank him enough for...helping me to work on the KWHY-TV transmitters on Mt. Wilson.
Thanks, Dave...you're the best.
Jeffrey A. Brown
From Vicki Amrine:
I remember one time at Mt. Harvard I saw a pie tin filled with kibble on the floor of Channel 52's suite. I asked Dave what it was for, and he told me how he had trained a squirrel to come in and eat out of the tin. He had a kind heart and will be missed.
From Steve Darmis:
It was David Bergen who hired me at Channel 22. He was the person that gave me my first break, as I was fresh out of video production school with no television experience. David was the kind of person with no pretense, no phoniness about him. He was real & genuine. I look back at my days spent at Channel 22 with good memories, thanks - in part - to David Bergen.
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