Biography
John Terenzio is widely recognized as an accomplished television and new media executive and producer. In his 20 years of television experience, he has developed, created, or produced virtually every type of reality programming for ABC, NBC, and FOX, as well as for cable channels and syndication.
Mr. Terenzio is currently the owner and President of Tap, INc. which creates, develops and consults for various media companies. His clients include CBS Television Distribution (CTD) for which he is the Executive Producer of the syndicated reality series “Judge Joe Brown”, and “Swift Justice With Jackie Glass”. Mr. Terenzio is also the creator of “Swift Justice With Jackie Glass”. Mr. Terenzio also provides his services to media clients overseas, including CCTV (China Central Television).
Previously, Mr. Terenzio served as the President of Programming and Publishing at Broadband Sports, a new media company that specialized in sports content for new media and television platforms. Comprised of various B2B and B2C businesses, Broadband Sports had an aggregated viewership that ranked third in its sector behind ESPN.com and CBS Sportsline.com. Broadband Sports business assets included the exclusive websites for more than 300 superstar athletes, a network of more than 200 sports writers, an e-commerce business, and two television programs.
Prior to Broadband Sports, Mr. Terenzio was the Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of Fox Sports Net responsible for the creation and production of more than 50 hours of weekly original programming on that cable channel.
Mr. Terenzio has been the Executive Producer of widely viewed syndicated programming in the United States including the Twentieth Century Fox program, A Current Affair, and the critically acclaimed syndicated series, The Crusaders.
Mr. Terenzio began his career as a journalist. After a brief period as a newspaper reporter and “news” radio producer, he became a producer and reporter in television news.
At KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Mr. Terenzio produced the station’s local news and became an on-air reporter. He went on to join the station’s investigative reporting unit, which won numerous national awards.
Mr. Terenzio was the News Director at WPLG-TV, the Post-Newsweek owned station in Miami. While there, WPLG-TV was the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for the nation’s outstanding local newscasts.
Mr. Terenzio joined ABC News as a field producer, where he covered three presidential elections, and four wars.
Mr. Terenzio went on to produce various programs for ABC News, including prime-time news magazines.
He then joined NBC News as the Executive Producer of the weekend editions of NBC Nightly News.
Mr. Terenzio has been widely quoted on subjects related to American media in books, magazines, and newspaper articles and lectured on media topics at various symposiums and universities. He is a visiting lecturer at the Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications graduate program in Los Angeles, and at the Tsinghua University School of Journalism in Beijing (see talks).
He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and 3 children.