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- Dick_Carlson abstract "Richard Warner \"Dick\" Carlson (born 1941) is an American journalist, radio and television host, former diplomat, and media executive. He was director of the Voice of America during the last six years of the Cold War appointed by President Reagan and reappointed by President George H. W. Bush. During the same time, Carlson led Radio Marti to Cuba, and was director of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), WORLDNET and the USIA Documentary Film Service.In 1991-92, he was U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles, an archipelago of more than 100 islands in the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of Africa, appointed by President George H.W. Bush. He returned to the U.S., at the request of the White House, to become president and ceo of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the parent company to PBS and National Public Radio, a position he held for six years.In 1997, he became president and ceo of King World Public Television, a subsidiary of King World Productions, the syndicator of Oprah, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, among other successful TV shows. Two years later, King World was purchased by CBS for $2.5 billion.Carlson was the full-time Vice-Chairman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the counter terrorism institute in Washington, D.C. and Brussels, for eight years.Carlson has been chairman of the board of directors of InterMedia of Washington, D.C., the international research firm, for the past seven years. He has hosted the weekly Danger Zone radio shows on Sirius/XM, WMAL-630AM in Washington, British Sky Radio and the World Radio Network in London, for ten years. In 2012-2013, he hosted the weekly Danger Zone TV shows on FIOS and Time-Warner cable. LtCol. Bill Cowan, USMC (ret.) of Fox News has been his co-host on these shows and is his business partner in Tulip Hill Enterprises, LLC, which owns the broadcasts.Carlson also writes a weekly newspaper column, often about terrorism and national security, for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Charleston Mercury. He is a former political columnist for the Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C. (The Shadow Knows –by Dick Carlson & Bill Regardie.)Carlson has been a newspaper and wire service reporter, a magazine writer, a TV and radio correspondent, and a documentary filmmaker. He has written hundreds of by-lined newspaper and magazine stories and has won more than a dozen prestigious media awards.He co-wrote Snatching Hillary, A Satirical Novel (Tulip Hill Publishing, 2014, ISBN 0692337008) with Bill Cowan.".
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- Dick_Carlson comment "Richard Warner \"Dick\" Carlson (born 1941) is an American journalist, radio and television host, former diplomat, and media executive. He was director of the Voice of America during the last six years of the Cold War appointed by President Reagan and reappointed by President George H. W. Bush. During the same time, Carlson led Radio Marti to Cuba, and was director of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), WORLDNET and the USIA Documentary Film Service.In 1991-92, he was U.S.".
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