Howard Weinberg

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Develops innovative program formats that become models for industry, takes ideas from concept to completion. · Manages creative staff and technical production, delivers high-quality programs under tight budgets and deadlines. · Special skills in talent development, public policy issues, anticipating audience tastes. · Extensive experience in broadcast, cable and non-broadcast television.


CREDITS (By Program Type) - (full chronological credits and awards)

DOCUMENTARIES

net.LEARNING, Executive Producer & Senior Producer-Writer, 2 hours on online college education, narrated by Scott Simon. PBS, 1998.

BILL MOYERS PUBLIC AFFAIRS TELEVISION SPECIALS, PBS, 1991-92
SPECIAL REPORT: AFTER THE WAR, Senior Producer and Producer-Writer, hour essay on aftermath of Gulf War.

SPORTS FOR SALE, Producer-Writer-Director, 90-minute documentary followed by 90-minute live discussion, call-in show.

PROJECT LITERACY, U.S., Producer-Writer, PBS Specials, 1987-1989:
ONE PLUS ONE (mentoring), host-narrator Pat Morita.
FIRST THINGS FIRST (children's literacy), host-narrator Phylicia Rashad.
A JOB TO BE DONE (workplace literacy), narrator David Birney.

BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL, Producer-Writer, PBS, 1979-80 & 1973-74
WHAT'S A PARTY FOR? (two-party system);
WITHIN OUR POWER (energy conservation);
THE ESSENTIAL REAGAN (political profile).

ALBERT SHANKER = TEACHER POWER (education);
KENT STATE: STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE (politics);
THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS OBSOLETE (lending policies leading to urban decay);
THE OREGON ATTITUDE (environmental sensitivity and innovation).

ASSIGNMENT AMERICA with STUDS TERKEL, Producer-Writer, Topical Profiles, 1975
WRINKLED RADICAL (Aging; Maggie Kuhn of the Gray Panthers)
TELL IT TO PITTSBURGH (Union Democracy; Ed Sadlowski of the Steelworkers Union)
"IF IT'S BIG, HIT IT" (freedom of speech; Bill Mauldin & Pat Oliphant, political cartoonists - 2 parts)
A TEXAS MAVERICK (women in politics; Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold, candidate for VP)

WABC-TV, Producer-Writer, 1969-73 & 1966-68
SCOUNDRELS! SCALAWAGS! & SAVIORS! - THE GOOD OLD DAYS AT NEW YORK'S CITY HALL, 10-part series made into hour.
MELBA TOLLIVER'S NEW YORK, (compilation of profiles from weekly Profile! Series)
CONSCIOUSNESS RISING (women's liberation movement)
THE GARBAGE GLUT (environmental conflicts)
THE CREATIVE TEACHER (from The Superintendent of Schools Reports series)

THE BUILT-IN BLACKOUT, Field Producer-Reporter, hour, Public Broadcast Laboratory, NET. 1969

NO HOME FOR BILLY, Producer-writer, half-hour on foster children, WISN-TV, Milwaukee 1966


CABLE DOCUMENTARIES

UNRAVELING OF A CANDIDATE, Producer-Writer, hour on presidential candidates' defining moments, New York Times Television for the Discovery Channel Spotlight series, 2004

EXTREME PLASTIC SURGERY, Producer-Writer, hour for MSNBC Investigates! 2001.

CAROLINE KENNEDY: KEEPER OF THE LEGACY, Producer-Writer, hour for Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer, MSNBC, 2000.


DOCUMENTARY PROFILES

SID AT 90, Producer-Director, Half-hour profile of actor-comedian Sid Raymond, World Premiere at 12th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center; broadcast on WLIW 21 New York Public Television, 2003.

"TOPLESS CELLIST" CHARLOTTE MOORMAN, Producer-Director, Half-hour commissioned by video artist Nam June Paik for exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York. Broadcast on Thirteen/WNET, New York. 1995.

GEORGE BUSH - THE MAKING OF A LEADER, Consulting Producer, hour for Bush Presidential Library. Broadcast on The History Channel, 1997.


PUBLIC AFFAIRS & HYBRID PROGRAMS

LISTENING TO AMERICA with BILL MOYERS, Executive Producer-Writer & Producer,
Election-year weekly series, 27 hours, PBS, 1992

THE MacNEIL/LEHRER REPORT, Founding Producer;
Producer, 211 half-hours, including 10/20/75 opener, THE ROBERT MacNEIL REPORT, PBS, 1975-78.

THE FUTURE OF INVESTING, Producer-Writer, 1 ½ hour.
Wall Street Journal Television, Asia, Europe, U.S.; Home Video, 1996

ALFRED I. DUPONT - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FORUMS, PBS, Producer-Director
JOURNALISTS IN A TIME OF CRISIS: WATCHDOGS OR LAPDOGS? 2 ½ hours, 2002
TV NEWS: SERVING THE PUBLIC INTEREST, CONVENIENCE & NECESSITY? 3 ½ hours, 2001
MONEY, HUMOR & SPIN IN ELECTION 2000 2 hours 2000
JOURNALISTS, LAWYERS & PUBLIC OFFICIALS - OVERCOMING PUBLIC MISTRUST,
4 hours. 1997

MORE GREAT NEWS - duPont Awards excerpts program hosted by Scott Simon, 2 hours, 2000


INSIDE STORY with HODDING CARTER, Senior Producer-Writer; press critique series. PBS, 1981.

AMERICA'S ELECTION, Producer-Writer, Hour Special, NHK, Japan. 1996.

DR. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGI - Nobel Prize-winning scientist in conversation with Studs Terkel, Assignment America PBS. 1975.


MAGAZINE STORIES & PROGRAMS

NOW with BILL MOYERS, Producer, Academic Freedom; Writer & Interview Producer, PBS, 2002

MEDIA MATTERS, Producer-Writer, Investigating Chiquita, PBS, 1999.

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES OSGOOD: Producer-Writer:
The V-Chip; The Kronos Quartet; The Children of Brother Brian at De LaSalle Academy; Photographer Joel Meyerowitz preserving artist Edward Hopper's Cape Cod landscape; Sculptor Martin Puryear's Battery Park City pylons. 1995.

Soccer in America on the Eve of the World Cup; The Rockefeller Estate, Kykuit; Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Large Scale Sculpture; One Percent for Public Art; The Yale Band Recreates the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band; The Jim Henson Foundation's International Puppet Festival; Elizabeth Bishop, American Poet Rediscovered. 1994.

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES KURALT: Producer-Writer, Dizzy (Dizzy Gillespie - In Memoriam) rebroadcast 1/10/93.
Eight stories including The 30th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington, Fairfield Porter, MIRO at MoMA, humor pieces with Bill Geist: Smelt Fishing in Chicago, Indoor Rock Climbing. 1993.

More than 80 cultural, social, political stories; profiles of LEONTYNE PRICE, DAVID HOCKNEY, WILLEM deKOONING, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ROBERT JOFFREY, HAROLD PRINCE, YO YO MA, NAM JUNE PAIK, PETER CHERMAYEFF, RICARDO MUTI, CHARLES DUTOIT. 1985-87; 1981-84.

CBS NEWS SIXTY MINUTES: Producer-Writer, Stories for Harry Reasoner:
Airline Pilots' Retirement Age; Influence of PACs; Maternity Leave; Amory & Hunter Lovins. 1984-85


PERFORMANCE & ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS

THE DICK CAVETT SHOW, Executive Producer for WNET/13, 200 half-hour programs. PBS. 1978-79.

NEW YORK IN SONG - Producer-Director, 90-minute special, CUNY-TV, New York. 2002

PAVAROTTI PLUS! LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER, Producer-Writer, Intermission Features
PBS, 1989 & 1990.

NEW YORK AT NIGHT (cabaret, poetry, theatre, comedy), WABC-TV, 1972.

DIGITAL FILMMAKING I & II - Producer, Host/Interviewer: 1½ hours for New York Film/ Video Council, Manhattan Neighborhood Network. 1999.


NON-BROADCAST PROGRAMS

ALFRED I. DUPONT - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AWARDS CEREMONY, Producer-writer, 2004.

ELECTION DEBRIEFING, Producer-Director, Educational video for Dean Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1992

CROWN OF THE ANDES, Writer-Producer-Director. Promotional video, Christie's auction of historic emerald and gold crown. 1995

NEW TELEVISION WORKSHOP, WGBH - Interviewer for Archival Project.


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