Ron Giles

Ronald D. Giles (born 1942) is an American television executive and author.

Background Ron Giles graduated from Glenwood High School in New Boston in 1960. Earning degrees at Ohio University (BS, History Education) and the Ohio State University (Masters, Television and Film), Giles began his career teaching American History in Columbus, Ohio. After three years, he changed direction and joined the television broadcasting field.

Television career In 1967, Giles became a television studio director and producer at WBNS-TV channel 10 in Columbus. Giles won a regional 1976 Emmy Award and the Golden Iris Award from the National Association of Television Program Executives He directed a three-camera television interview with President Gerald Ford, conducted at the White House by news director Al Schottelkotte.

In 1977, Giles returned to Columbus to help launch the QUBE interactive cable television service for Warner Cable, where as one of the program executives he hosted a daily talk show (Columbus Alive) and worked as a producer. When QUBE expanded to Pittsburgh, Giles returned to head broadcasting and supervised community access production and the design and construction of six television studios. Giles joined John B. Mullin and Diamond P Sports in 1984, to work on their productions for the National Hot Rod Association and The Nashville Network. Among these productions was One Lap of America, created by Brock Yates, a one-hour special of the event airing on NBC.

Giles was then a part of the 1986 start-up team at QVC, a cable television shopping channel envisioned by entrepreneur and founder of The Franklin Mint, Joseph Segel. Giles got the fledgling television operation on the air in less than three months, and by the early 1990s, Giles would rise to executive vice president at QVC.

With the advent of Barry Diller as the new chairman of QVC, Giles would become the Executive Vice President of QVC International with responsibilities for the expansion of the QVC television shopping concept into the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Germany.

On Harrisonville Avenue, 2008 - memoir Cottonwood Pass, 2009 - suspense Great Heats, 2011 - historical fiction Locusts and Wild Honey, 2013 - supernatural The Porter Curse, 2020, supernatural, occult