Irving Berlin Kahn (c.1917-1994) was an American businessman and founder of TelePrompTer Corporation and Cable TV.
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Irving Berlin Kahn was born in 1917 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the nephew of his namesake, popular composer Irving Berlin. Kahn later moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, and Mamaroneck, New York. He sold his company to the New York Times (NYT) for $82.7 million. Kahn become a consultant for NYT and was paid six $4 million installments to work with them; he also agreed not to compete with them.
In 1974, Kahn was involved in a case that went before the Supreme Court of the United States, regarding the application of search and seizure laws on wiretaps.[1]
Irving Berlin Kahn died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was survived by his wife of 45 years, Elizabeth Heslin Kahn, his two daughters, Ruth and Jean, of New York, and his sister, Mildred, of West Palm Beach, Florida.