John Kennedy O'Connor

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John Kennedy O'Connor (born in 1964) is a television and radio broadcaster, author, and entertainment commentator. He was born in North London, England, but is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[1] He has written, reported and broadcast for numerous media organizations, as well as writing, created and produced media events for a number of international corporations all over the world.[2] He is best known for his work within the Eurovision Song Contest as a TV commentator and host. Until 2023, he was the news anchor for NBC and CBS Northern California channels KIEM-TV and KVIQ-LD, before moving to CBS Station KIMA-TV in Washington, as the main anchor.

Eurovision Song Contest involvement

In 2005,

Pavlo Shylko.[citation needed
]

O'Connor's second Eurovision work, The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official Celebration, was published by Carlton Books in April 2015 (

ISBN 978-1780976389). The book was also published in German and Swedish editions.[5]

Since 2012, O'Connor has been the special host of

Eurovision PopMaster on BBC Radio 2, with Ken Bruce and Paddy O'Connell
as the two contestants.

In 2014, together with his CreativeLive co-host Jamarie Milkovic, O'Connor provided English commentary for San Marino RTV live from

BBC1
.

In 2018, O'Connor was one of the judges for 1in360, the talent show to choose San Marino's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. He again presented, as the spokesperson, the preview shows for San Marino RTV.

In celebration of the contest returning to the UK after an absence of twenty-five years, O'Connor was chosen to be San Marino's voting spokesman for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 held in Liverpool.

Radio

Until the station closed, O'Connor was the American correspondent for digital station

LBC Radio. UK Channel 4's Jon Snow interviewed O'Connor live from Chicago when news of a scandal relating to the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 broke in May 2008.[12]

In Ireland, he has guested on Key 101 FM Radio with Eurovision winners

Rattlebag, Newstalk Radio and regularly contributes to BBC Radio Ulster
.

In Australia, O'Connor has become a regular contributor to various

Fran Kelly and many local radio stations in Australia and was the featured guest on an hour-long special on the Triple J
ABC station.

Television

In May 2010, O'Connor appeared with

BBC News Channel with James Dagwell on E24[16] and after a one-on-one interview, won PopMaster on BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce show, playing against Paddy O'Connell in a Eurovision spoof of the regular feature, a feat he repeated in 2012 against the BBC Moscow Correspondent Steven Rosenberg. He was also featured on ITV News and BBC Local Radio live from Oslo. In 2011, O'Connor was featured in the documentary The Secret History of Eurovision, shown in More4
in the UK.

Since 2013, O'Connor has been the lead on-screen host for the educational broadcaster CreativeLive, fronting a variety of multi-day live broadcasts from the platforms San Francisco studios.

At the end of 2014, it was announced on Twitter and PBS.org that O'Connor was recording a series for PBS on international architecture and was filming the first episode in Kuala Lumpur and San Francisco with César Pelli as the subject. The six-part series (also featuring Norman Foster and I.M.Pei) aired across the US in the summer of 2015. In August 2015, O'Connor was recording a travel series focussing on India, Nepal and Myanmar.

In February 2020, O'Connor became the host of FacebookLive, broadcast bi-weekly on the social network's blueprint platform. In May 2021, O'Connor became the host of the irregular corporate online newscast The Zero Trust Exchange, produced by

ZScaler
.

From February 2022, O'Connor became the news anchor for NBC and CBS Northern California channels KIEM-TV and KVIQ-LD. In July 2023, he became the main news anchor for CBS station KIMA-TV in Washington.

Newspaper

O'Connor's written work has been published in the United Kingdom in (among others) the

San Jose Mercury News, the Houston Chronicle
and other American daily papers. He has been profiled in Meetings & Conventions Magazine.

For the 60th anniversary of Eurovision, The Telegraph ran O'Connor's (accurate) predictions for the result in the run-up to the competition.

Blue to sing for Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
, quoted from an article written by O'Connor for ESCInsight.com.

In 2006, O'Connor was featured in the UK editions of

Metro for their "60 Seconds Interview" column.[20] In 2007, O'Connor contributed on camera items for both the Associated Press and Reuters for broadcast, in addition to video spots on AOL's Big Story. Online, he has been interviewed by ESCToday.com[21] and Oikotimes.com[22] about the Eurovision Song Contest
.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1780976389
    . Page 3
  2. ISBN 978-1-84442-586-0
  3. ^ "EBU.CH :: 2005_05_18_ESC". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  4. ^ "История конкурса Евровидение". Esckaz.com.
  5. ^ "60 år med Eurovision fra John Kennedy O'Connor - escNorge". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Kyiv 2013 (4° parte) – Video SMTV San Marino 05/12/2013". Smtvsanmarino.sm.
  7. ^ "Gaydio". Gaydarradio.com.
  8. ^ [1][dead link]
  9. ^ YouTube – EUROVISION SKY FOX NEWS March 17, 2007
  10. ^ YouTube – Eurovision Sky News May 20 2006 Athens
  11. ^ JKMMOC. "EUROVISION BBC NEWS May 24, 2008". YouTube. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021.
  12. ^ JKMMOC. "EUROVISION CHANNEL 4 NEWS May 7, 2008". YouTube. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021.
  13. ^ "John Kennedy O'Connor: Brown's Ascedency". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 25 June 2007.
  14. ^ "John Kennedy O'Connor: The invisible election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 November 2007.
  15. ^ "YouTube". YouTube.[dead YouTube link]
  16. ^ JKMMOC. "Eurovision 2010 BBC News E24". YouTube. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021.
  17. ^ Alexandra Topping (10 May 2009). "South Ossetia on our minds ... the Georgians who fell foul of Eurovision". The Guardian.
  18. ^ Leon Siciliano (23 May 2015). "Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.
  19. Daily Star
    .
  20. ^ Andrew Williams (17 May 2006). "60 Seconds: John Kennedy O'Connor". Metro.
  21. ^ Eurovision Song Contest Serbia 2008 | News – Review: The Eurovision Song Contest 50 Years: the Official Companion Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ Eurovision Song Contest | Belgrade (Serbia) 2008 – Articles

External links

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