William F. Baker (television)
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William F. "Bill" Baker | |
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Born | William Franklin Baker September 20, 1942 Cleveland, Ohio |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Case Western Reserve University |
William Franklin Baker (born September 20, 1942) is an American broadcaster, author, academic, and explorer.
Baker directs the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Education, and Public Policy at Fordham University, where he is also Journalist-in-Residence and a professor in the Graduate School of Education.[1] He is also the Distinguished Professor of media & entertainment at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, and President Emeritus of WNET, New York's public television station. He teaches a business class at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Career
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In 1972 while with
During his 21-year tenure as president of WNET in New York, Baker developed one of the first — and then largest — endowments in the history of public broadcasting, and presided over its heyday as the pre-eminent producer of arts, nature, biography and public affairs programming in the nation.
Baker was president of Westinghouse Broadcasting and chairman of their cable and programming companies. At Westinghouse, Baker introduced Oprah Winfrey as a talk show host and established PM Magazine as the #1 syndicated program in America in the 1980s. Baker was involved with the early stages of launching both the Discovery Channel and the Disney Channel.
Baker established WNET's Educational Resources Center, the nation's most prolific trainer in multimedia teaching techniques. He also founded the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Education, & Public Policy at Fordham University, and was an annual speaker at WNET's Celebration of Teaching and Learning.
Publications and productions
Baker is co-author of the books The World's Your Stage: How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love(Amacom, 2016) based on a class he teaches at
Baker is the executive producer of The Face: Jesus in Art, a landmark Emmy-winning feature film that traces the image of
Awards
Baker is the recipient of seven
Baker has also received the Gabriel Personal Achievement Award, two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award and the 1987 Trustees Emmy Award, given in recognition of outstanding contribution to the advancement of television.[citation needed]
Personal
Baker holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Communications Sciences and Organizational Behavior from
Baker is believed[by whom?] to be the eighth person in history to have stood on both the North Pole and the South Pole.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Kelly, Milnes. "The Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy and Education". www.fordham.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
- ^ a b "Baker, William at The Juilliard School". www.juilliard.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-12.