Av Westin was involved in the production of news broadcasts for two of the three major commercial television networks and for educational television. He rose from copy boy in CBS radio news to executive producer for CBS television news (1947-1967), became executive producer of the Public Broadcast Laboratory Division of NET (1967-1969), and an executive producer of ABC news (1969-1989).
| 1929 July 29 |
Avram Robert Westin, born in New York city, son of Elliot and Harriet (Radin) Westin.
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| 1947 |
Summer school vacation, worked for CBS as a copy boy in Shortwave News.
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| 1948 |
Summer school vacation, returned to CBS as an Editorial Desk Assistant in CBS News.
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| 1949 June |
B.A., New York University.
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| 1949 June-1950 June |
Apprentice news writer, CBS Radio News.
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| 1950 June-1951 August |
Senior news writer, tape reporter assigned to The Nation's Nightmare, and stringer reporter for Hear It Now.
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| 1951 September-1952 March |
Chief field tape reporter for The People Act.
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| 1952 April-1954 February |
Assistant Director Special Events CBS Radio. Produced World News with Robert Trout, The World Today, and Listen to Korea. cted as New York regional reporter for CBS News.
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| 1954 February-1955 January |
News Editor of The Morning Show, CBS Television.
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| 1955 January-1957 |
Director-Producer, CBS Television.
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| 1955 April 24 |
Married Sandra Lillian Glick.
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| 1957 June-1958 June |
Earned M.A. in Russian and East European Studies at Columbia University on CBS Foundation Fellowship.
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| 1958 |
Birth of son, Mark Eric Westin.
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| 1958-1961 |
Producer and Director, CBS Television.
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| 1959 |
Produced and directed The Population Explosion for CBS Television.
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| 1961 June-1963 August |
CBS News Producer and Director in Europe.
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| 1963 September-1965 March |
Producer, CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace.
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| 1965 April-1967 |
Executive Producer for CBS News Special Events and Election Units.
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| 1967 |
Executive Producer, Executive Director, Columbia University Broadcast Laboratory.
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| 1967-1969 |
Executive Director, Public Broadcast Laboratory Division of NET.
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| 1969-1989 |
Executive Producer of Television News, ABC.
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| 2022 March 12 |
Av Westin died in New York, New York.
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The above Chronology does not agree exactly with the biographical information in Who's Who 1970-1971. Much of the above information on Westin's early years with CBS was taken from his fellowship application, box 5, folder 2. See also box 1, folder 1.
