 Baruch was a former director and member of the executive committee of the National Cable Television Association; a founder of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; and a trustee of the Museum of Television and Radio and Lenox Hill Hospital.He was a co-founder, past chairman and chairman emeritus of the National Academy of Cable Programming, as well as past president of the International Radio and Television Society.He also served as vice chairman of Carnegie Hall from 1997 to 1999, and as a member of its executive committee.