Ronald D. Giles

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Monday, September 1, 2014

Ron Giles TV Stories: The Woody Hayes Show, WBNS-TV, Columbus, Ohio, 1968

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Every Saturday night during College Football season, Channel 10 carried the Woody Hayes Show live at 11:30 pm, right after the news. The ...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

The US Presidents

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Having received an  undergraduate  degree in History and having taught the subject for three years, I still maintain a passion for Americ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

"The Audition" from Ron Giles TV Stories

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TV Stories is a compilation of interesting people and incidents from my 35 years in Television. The following is an excerpt from this book ...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Flippo, Dan Imel and The Early Show on WBNS-TV, Channel 10 -- Columbus Ohio

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From 1968 to 1970, I had the pleasure (and pressure) of working with the #1 TV personality in Columbus, Ohio -- a wise-cracking, saxophone ...
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Ronald D. Giles
Author: "Locusts and Wild Honey," a paranormal novel involving a curse, ghosts and a Black Dog. "Great Heats," a novel of historic fiction set in ancient Ohio, 2010. "On Harrisonville Avenue," published in 2008 and "Cottonwood Pass: A Novel of Suspense Set Against a Contemporary Political Backdrop," 2009. Television Executive: 30 year career in Television production and administration. I created the QVC Television format in 1986 and was part of the early two-way Television experiment called QUBE. I also worked at statons WBNS-TV, WCPO-TV, and WBZ-TV as well as with Mullin Television Productions and Diamond P Sports. Consultant: I specialized in start-up operations, especially those wanting to found a TV Shopping Network. As such, I was instrumental in the start-ups of QVC UK, QVC Deutschland, CVC Mexico, Shoptime Brazil, Korea Home Shopping and TVSN Australia. I aslo consulted with China Home Shopping which did not materialize, Borders.com and CatalogueCity.com, now Shop.com. I also have been blessed with the gift of singing and a beautiful accompanist, my wife, Joan as we present "Hymns and Their Stories"
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