Richard Hart was a staple of Bay Area television throughout the 1980s on the popular ''
Evening Magazine
''Evening Magazine'' is the name of various news and entertainment-style local television shows in different markets.
Concept
On August 9, 1976, Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting-owned KPIX in San Francisco debuted a locally-produced magazin ...
''. EM aired at 7:30 pm nightly, with co-host
Jan Yanehiro and showcased some of the interesting and often technology-based activities and happenings around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Richard Hart created and hosted
The Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channe ...
television show ''
The Next Step''. He later hosted several programs for
CNET TV
CNET Video is a San Francisco, California, San Francisco and New York City, New York based network showing original programming catering to the niche market of technology enthusiasts, operated by Red Ventures through their CNET brand. CNET Video ...
including C, net Central
(
CNET
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's first project, which aired on the
Scifi Channel
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. La ...
), and
CNET News.com, which aired weekly on CNBC.
Currently, he is an instructor in the Multimedia Communications department at the
Academy of Art University
The Academy of Art University (AAU or ART U), formerly Academy of Art College and Richard Stephens Academy of Art, is a private for-profit art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded as the Academy of Advertising Art by Richard S. S ...
in San Francisco.
Hart also produces along with Steve Kotton a segment for ABC's
KGO-TV
KGO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's ABC network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, KGO-TV maint ...
in San Francisco on technology. He currently reports on emerging technologies for San Francisco's ABC7 among other TV stations.
Awards
Richard Hart is the only person to have been the recipient of both an
Emmy Award
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...
(for comedy) and a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award (investigative reporting).
Education and milestones
Richard Hart has a Physics Degree. He is on the official NASA list to be the first US space reporter journalist.
References
Living people
Academy of Art University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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