- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 43 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Television executive Johnathan Arlin Rodgers was born on January 18,1946 in San Antonio, Texas. In 1967 Rodgers received his B.A. degree in journalistic studies from the University of California - Berkeley, and was hired by Sports Illustrated Magazine. From 1968 until 1969, Rodgers served as the editor of urban affairs for Newsweek Magazine. In 1973, he earned his M.S. degree in communications from Stanford University and worked as a writer / producer for WNBC in New York. He left WNBC and worked as a general assignment reporter for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1975, Rodgers became the assistant news director at WBBM-TV in Chicago. This began a successful twenty-year career at CBS, where he served as news director, general manager, executive producer for CBS News and the president of the network's television station division. From 1998 until 2003, Rodgers worked for Discovery Networks. In 2003, he was hired as the chief executive officer of TV-One.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Johnathan Rodgers
- Johnathan Rodgers
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 998757632
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Johnathan Rodgers.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
034355
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 September 24.
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 October 13.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Television Executive.
- Added Author
Rodgers, Johnathan, 1946- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.