Ronald D. Giles
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Author/Consultant |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Author: "Locusts and Wild Honey," a paranormal novel involving a curse, ghosts and a Black Dog. "Great Heats," a novel of historic fiction set in ancient Ohio, 2010. "On Harrisonville Avenue," published in 2008 and "Cottonwood Pass: A Novel of Suspense Set Against a Contemporary Political Backdrop," 2009. Television Executive: 30 year career in Television production and administration. I created the QVC Television format in 1986 and was part of the early two-way Television experiment called QUBE. I also worked at statons WBNS-TV, WCPO-TV, and WBZ-TV as well as with Mullin Television Productions and Diamond P Sports. Consultant: I specialized in start-up operations, especially those wanting to found a TV Shopping Network. As such, I was instrumental in the start-ups of QVC UK, QVC Deutschland, CVC Mexico, Shoptime Brazil, Korea Home Shopping and TVSN Australia. I aslo consulted with China Home Shopping which did not materialize, Borders.com and CatalogueCity.com, now Shop.com. I also have been blessed with the gift of singing and a beautiful accompanist, my wife, Joan as we present "Hymns and Their Stories" |
| Interests | Hymnology, Music, Photography, Skeet |
| Favorite movies | Search for Fire, World According to Garp, Babe,Top Gun, Silence of the Lambs, Godfather series,Dave,Forest Gump, Saving Private Ryan. |