Broadcast Media Professional
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Executive Producer at CNBC
- Executive Producer at CNBC, NBCUni
- Past
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- Senior Executive Producer at TV Guide Channel
- Executive Producer at FOX NEWS CHANNEL
- Senior Producer at FOX NEWS CHANNEL
- Education
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- Seton Hall University
- Connections
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98
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- Industry
- Broadcast Media
Jerry Burke’s Experience
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Executive Producer
CNBC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Broadcast Media industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Executive Producer of Power Lunch, the hot spot where the market titans make deals, break bread and break news.
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Executive Producer
CNBC, NBCUni
(Broadcast Media industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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Senior Executive Producer
TV Guide Channel
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)
Created, developed and launched Hollywood 411... TV Guide Network's first daily entertainment news program. Combining the slick production style of syndicated fare with the best of cable's nightly talk panel format, Hollywood 411 brought viewers the hottest showbiz news.
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Executive Producer
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
2002 — 2007 (5 years )
It started with a desire to tell great stories and to create engaging and compelling television that makes you want to watch. I called it "video flypaper"... producing images and graphics so compelling the viewer stuck to the channel.
I reorganized and rebuilt the daytime news production at Fox News Channel to challenge CNN and MSNBC for dominance over breaking news. I considered myself an agent of change, who created a sense of urgency and momentum during our daytime coverage.
My team and I overtook and buried the competition, using techniques as simple as "shaving breaks", and as difficult as being first and being right.
In the midst of the tumult, I considered myself a talent coach and mentor... a producer who loves to create new programming and to fix broken shows. Fox News was a terrific lab for that.
Where else could you see ratings increases of 700% year to year, (as we did at the Fox Report)?
The days were long, but the years flew by. You had to be there. -
Senior Producer
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years )
Roger brought me in from EXTRA to add a more "visual" element to Fox News. I was introduced to Shepard Smith and was told he was my new Anchor man. Beauty... that was the easy part. We went from 30 to 35 tapes in the hour to over 130 tapes in the hour. There was some yelling, some screaming at times, but we built one of the best hour of news on television. It was an honor, Shep.
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NY Bureau Chief
EXTRA
(Broadcast Media industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
I built and ran the re-organized NY bureau for this nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine. I mean that literally... I designed and built the new bureau on Broadway, while moving the old bureau from the TIme/Life building in Rock Center. Sidebar - while in the old bureau, my office had been previously occupied by Martha Stewart... Yes, it was big, and it was very stylish, I decided not to change a thing.
My time at EXTRA further enhanced my ability to develop programming that was fast paced, graphics-oriented and visually driven... the exact style of storytelling that I would later bring to Fox News in its fledgling days. Look at Fox News and you can draw a direct line to the style and energy of syndication. -
Director of News
VH1
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Entertainment industry)
July 1997 — August 1997 (2 months)
In the time I was at VH1, I managed to pull off several firsts. Their first LIVE press conference, as the Rolling Stones announced their Bridges to Babylon tour from under the Brooklyn Bridge... The instant special "The Murder of Gianni Versace", produced on my very first day in the office.
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Field Producer
Inside Edition
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 1993 — June 1997 (3 years 11 months)
All I remember is OJ Simpson. There were side trips - with the incredibly charming Deborah Norville to a plane crash site in the Colombian Andes (I hope you all get a chance to work with her); being handed $10,000 in cash, a bullet-proof vest and a huge suitcased size satellite phone to cover the "invasion" of Haiti by the 10th Mountain Division; and I became the resident expert on the death of Doris Duke and the exploits of Tonya Harding... But, what consumed us the most was the OJ story. For at least 2 years straight years, I turned 2 stories a day, (we were updating the west coast feed daily)... for a total of more than 600 different OJ stories. All promotable and teaseable... Feed the Beast? Thanks to the desk, Eric Ritter, Charmian Ling, Sue Levit and Jackie Donaldson...(Jackie made sure food was delivered to my desk twice a day so I wouldn't starve as I wrote story after story.)
... all the while striving to write le bon just... to be the wordsmith. -
Field producer
KING WORLD
(Broadcast Media industry)
1993 — 1997 (4 years )
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Field Producer
Paramount Television
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 1991 — June 1993 (2 years 6 months)
Field producer for a syndicated newsmagazine called Hard Copy. Highlights were the Amy FIsher case and other various headline grabbing stories... there was a lot that happened... but I can't go into it here.
I had the good fortune to be re-united with Peter Brennan (who taught me all I know about the power of the promo), Burt Kearns (who taught me all I know about editing a story to its essence), and Diane Dimond (who taught me all I know about how to look behind the headline, for the motive lurking beneath). -
Producer
Preview: The Best of the New
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 1990 — January 1991 (6 months)
Created by Al Masini, the brains behind Entertainment Tonight... Preview: The Best of the New was to be a daily guide to all that was happening in Movies, TV, Art, Music and Etc... Remember, it was competing against USA Today, the TV show. Remember that one?
With 5 hosts, including Robin Leach, the show was too broad to appeal to any one demographic and it died barely 13 weeks after launch. However, I got to work with Richard Johnson who later went on to edit Page 6, and I found Robin Leach to be very generous and a pleasure to work with. -
Promo Producer//Field Producer
A Current Affair
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
April 1988 — August 1990 (2 years 5 months)
The one, only and original. It was unlike anything else on tv at the time. Before "reality" and "Dateline", there was ACA. The storytelling techniques and rundowns are identical to anything you will find on any network newsmagazine now... but then, it was a different time.
I was first hired as the promo writer, which, looking back now on my most experience as a religious program producer, seems ludicrous. But that's what made the show what it was, a collection of the madcap that caught lightning in a bottle... plus I got to know Steve Dunleavy. -
Producer
WNBC-TV
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 1983 — January 1988 (4 years 6 months)
While working my way through college at Seton Hall, I was fortunate enough to meet Julian Philips (thanks, Julian!), who hooked me up with a job in local programming at WNBC-TV. Back in the day, they produced a local religious program called The First Estate: Religion in Review. This show was my life... I was determined to book the biggest religious guests of the day. By God, within in a short period of time, I booked Mother Teresa, Bishop Tutu and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama... all live, in our studio. It was perfectly cool meeting them all. The host was Dr. Russell Barber, who got me started in this business. Thanks, Dr. Barber.
Jerry Burke’s Education
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Seton Hall University
1980 — 1984
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