Joe has been associated with award-winning shows and top affiliations in the television industry for nearly forty years.
At NBC NETWORK, he regularly controlled projects as large as political campaigns and conventions, global live specials, and worldwide sporting events. He received nine national EMMY honors in news, sports and entertainment, and, with budget responsibilities exceeding sixty million dollars, served as executive-in-charge of production for such programs as THE TODAY SHOW,...
Joe has been associated with award-winning shows and top affiliations in the television industry for nearly forty years.
At NBC NETWORK, he regularly controlled projects as large as political campaigns and conventions, global live specials, and worldwide sporting events. He received nine national EMMY honors in news, sports and entertainment, and, with budget responsibilities exceeding sixty million dollars, served as executive-in-charge of production for such programs as THE TODAY SHOW, JEOPARDY, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, NIGHTLY NEWS, APOLLO SPACE SPECIALS, PGA and LPGA GOLF TOURNAMENTS, several WORLD SERIES and SUPER BOWLS, and more than a dozen documentary specials.
In ‘75-’76, he was a key figure in putting together what was then the most ambitious live special in the history of television: Eleven hours live with over seventy location remotes from around the world for NBC’s Bicentennial celebration called THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. In the first half-hour of this program, remotes set-up over a period of ten months included those switched live from the DMZ in Korea to the Vatican, to NYC’s Operation Sail, to surfers on our Pacific coast. NBC’s legendary 8H and 8G studios were utilized in tandem to traffic all hard line and microwave transmissions from around the globe throughout the day. Also featured was the world’s first on-location remote via satellite, courtesy of a COMSAT prototype uplink station positioned in Yellowstone National Park.
Following NBC, Joe produced film, television and music videos as an independent in New York. He created programming and advertising for such companies as AMERICAN EXPRESS, NICKELODEON, COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION, the ABC, NBC and CBS NETWORKS, MCA and CBS RECORDS, ESPN, SHOWTIME, and PBS.
In 1990, Joe based his company in Central Florida to produce projects for HOME SHOPPING NETWORK and a variety of regional clients. In affiliation with ANTHONY POTTER PRODUCTIONS in NY, additional projects at the time included THE PRESIDENTS - four PBS one hour specials with former
