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R. Harrison Fries ( Born July 11,1953 ) Harrisonburg, Virginia, Family emigrants from the Frieslands, Germany and The Netherlands. Retired Television Broadcasting Executive and Senior Broadcast Engineer.Harrison spent 38 years in television broadcasting, the last 20 in the top 10 neilson markets of New York, Chicago, Orlando, Houston and Primarily his adopted home of Hollywood California. At KCOP Television he was instumental in the original developement of automation for broadcasting. He would go on to become a leader in the education of digital transmission and High Definition Television ( ATSC ). In the early 80's while technical manager for ABC Television olympics group, he displayed a technical theatrical wizardry produced, and viewed by millions worldwide, designing an electronic grid of audio and video transmissions and communications over the entire Los Angeles basin that would create simultaneous non interfering transmission for the broadcast of the 1984 Los Angeles summer olympics. He retired in 2001 after a terrorist attack on his life. Originally retiring to Sarasota, Florida he would later return to his original birth home of Harrisonburg,Virginia to care for, and be closer to his ageing mother. In 2007 however, he would be diagnosed with Non Hodkins Lymphoma. After successful treatment, he remains in remission, and helps raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, American Kidney Fund, and other charity foundations. He continues professional organization membership in The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ), Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA ), Eisenhower Commission member and fellow, RNC and occasionally speaks at broadcasting trade and educational events. Eventually his intention is to return to his retirement home of Sarasota, Florida.