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You know John Daly as the host of the internationally syndicated
show Real-TV and "House Detective" on HGTV. But John Daly is also a
journalist, author, and public speaker. His career spans more than
three decades.
John graduated from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island
in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and the desire to
become a writer. After two years in public relations and
advertising, John began his news career; first as a newspaper
reporter for the Norwich (CT) Bulletin and the New London (CT) Day.
Within a year, John was a television reporter in New Bern, North
Carolina at WCTI-TV 12. He embraced the job so enthusiastically that
he was arrested for an investigative piece on pay illegally withheld
from garment workers. The case against John was dismissed, but the
victimized workers received all of their back pay plus damages.
Within eleven months, John was hired at WPRI-TV 12 in Providence,
Rhode Island. John covered politics and the economy as well as
general assignment stories. It was at WPRI, where John's anchoring
talents were discovered and he began anchoring the station's morning
newscasts.
During that time, John completed a graduate course at Columbia
University in New York City for print journalists moving into
broadcast journalism.
Two years later, WFSB TV in Hartford, Connecticut, John's home town,
hired him away. John also covered politics and the economy while
anchoring the morning and noon newscasts, sometimes working fourteen
hours a day.
In 1990, John was then hired by KTNV-TV 13 in Las Vegas as the main
anchor and managing editor. John was the newsroom's main journalist
overseeing the writing and news content of the station's primary
newscasts. Two of the shows won regional Emmy awards and regional
Associated Press awards for best newscasts.
Cathy Ray, John's co-anchor says, "John is so solid and
well-informed. Whether it was local news or news from Bosnia and
Chechnya, I could count on John."
After six years, John made what could be an unprecedented jump from
the 68th television market to the national and international
spotlight for the role, so far, in which he is best known: Real TV,
the all video magazine show, distributed by Paramount Domestic
Television. At its height, nearly four million viewers watched John
host Real TV each night.
John Johnston, Senior Producer, Real-TV: "John brought credibility
to Real-TV. The audience believed him when he told them these videos
were, in fact, real."
Besides hosting, narrating and assisting on the writing of the show,
John's duties included promoting Real TV across the country and in
all English speaking nations with radio, television, and newspaper
interviews.
According to Cheri Brownlee, Co-Executive Producer, Real-TV: "John
is a regular guy who really enjoys people. He can walk up to people
who recognize him from television and have a conversation with them.
I can't tell you how much that meant to the success of Real-TV."
Because Paramount signed John to an exclusive contract, he was
unable to host any other shows. However, John used his free time to
lay the ground work for future writing endeavors. Already with a
literature degree, he began self-study on screenwriting and story
structure. To develop his writing from an actor's perspective, John
also studied acting with the Chekhov Studios in Los Angeles.
John has teamed with screenwriter Eric Snyder to write a screenplay,
"Dead in Three Weeks", based on the Binion murder trial in Las Vegas
and a sitcom, "Split/Screen", about the life of a porn star trying
to escape the adult film industry, which was optioned. John and Eric
are developing another sit-com with the final draft due by late
2006.
In 2001, John began Daly Productions, LLC., a business development
firm to help new technologies and start-up businesses by using
John’s contacts in entertainment, sports, business and politics.
John is currently working with: TraVerus Travel (www.traverus.net),
an internet travel company; Medsonix, an acoustic wave medical
technology that relieves pain and promotes circulation; and Nitrox,
a technology that can save vast amounts of water for golf courses
and agriculture.
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