Joyce Campbell Retires From KCET
JOYCE CAMPBELL RETIRES FROM KCET
Los Angeles - February 23, 2011 - Joyce
Campbell, KCET's Vice President of Education and Children's Programming, is
retiring March 18. Campbell, a 20-year veteran of KCET, has worked in public
television continuously since 1959.
During her tenure at KCET, Campbell
supervised many of the station's major initiatives: British co-productions (Madness
with Jonathan Miller and Power Plays);
KCET co-productions with the Latino Minority Lab (
and Power, Politics and Latinos);
bi-lingual pledge programs (Vikki Carr: Memories,
Memorias and the Julie Stav financial literacy programs); science series (The Human Quest and Life
& Times during the era of Patt Morrison, Rubén Martínez and Hugh
Hewitt; all of Carl Byker's KCET documentaries; American
Family.
Seven years ago she accepted the
position of Vice President for Education and Children's Programming and has
successfully led the company's rededication to education and children's
production. She has particularly
distinguished herself with A Place of Our
Own and Los Niños en Su Casa,
leading development and production of the series, as well as the extensive
outreach throughout the country. Most recently, Joyce helped develop Sid the Science Kid with The Jim Henson
Company and served as KCET Executive Producer on the series through the
production of its second season, which is just wrapping.
Prior to being recruited by KCET,
Campbell was Senior Vice President and Station Manager at WETA in Washington
DC, where she programmed the station and developed a substantial local
production and outreach service for the DC community, including news and public
affairs, arts and performance and historical documentaries. Juan Williams, formerly of NPR, first
appeared on television on several of these programs, including Politics: The New Black Power, cited by
the New York Times as one of the
standout documentaries of 1990.
WETA enticed her away from Moscow, Idaho, where she was station manager
at KUID TV and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Idaho,
while her husband taught economics there.
Campbell began her career at KQED in
San Francisco. As Senior
Producer/Director, she helped cover the tumultuous 60s in the Bay Area. One of
her emblematic memories: while
directing a live concert on a Sunday afternoon at the Berkeley Folk Festival,
Country Joe and the Fish, standing before the American flag, used the "f"
word. The next morning, the FBI
was at the station. No charges or
fines were levied.
Programs under her supervision have won
numerous awards including The Peabody, numerous local Emmy®s in Washington and
Los Angeles, the duPont-Columbia journalism award as well as Primetime and
Daytime Emmy nominations, and an Oscar® nomination.
She served for several years on the
Board of the International Public Television Conference (INPUT) and was a
founding Board member of the Washington DC chapter of Women in Film. She is a frequent consultant for the
National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. During the last year
she was a member of a special task force on creativity for the Council of Chief
State School Officers.
Campbell lives in Los Angeles with her
husband David Campbell. Their next
adventure is a trip to the Serengeti.
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