Biography
John Terenzio is widely recognized in the media industry as an accomplished television and digital media executive and content creator. In his 30 years of experience, he has developed, created, produced and managed virtually every type of news, sports, and reality programming for linear and digital platforms, and terrestrial networks.
Mr. Terenzio is currently the owner and President of TAP Inc. which creates and develops content and management strategies for media companies. Its clients regularly include major media entities, such as NBC Universal, CBS, Fox, Discovery, McGuire Media of Australia, Peninsula Television in Ireland and the UK, and CCTV (China Central Television.) Among his current production projects is a documentary series for a major streaming network and two multi-part reality crime series; “Bloodline Detectives”, now in its fifth season, which airs on Peacock, and “The Christmas Killings”. Both series are further distributed by Radial on linear and digital platforms.
Mr. Terenzio began his career as a journalist. After graduating from journalism school, he joined KYW-TV in Philadelphia, where he produced the station’s local newscasts and became a general assignment on-air reporter. He was then assigned as a reporter to the station’s investigative reporting unit, which won numerous national awards.
Mr. Terenzio also held a senior management position in local television as the News Director at WPLG-TV in Miami. While there, WPLG-TV was the recipient of the RTNDA “Edward R. Murrow Award” for the nation’s outstanding local newscasts and won numerous awards for its investigative reporting team, which he created.
Mr. Terenzio then went on to numerous positions at both ABC news and NBC News. At ABC News, he was assigned first to its Midwest news bureau and later to its Latin American bureau, during which time he covered three U.S. Presidential elections and four wars in Latin America and the Middle East. He then served as a senior level producer and executive at ABC News, where he managed the network’s domestic bureaus before becoming a Senior Producer for its “prime time” news specials. At NBC News, he was the Executive Producer of the weekend “Nightly News” broadcasts, as well as the network’s “Special Event” coverage.
Mr. Terenzio then transitioned from “news” content to sports and entertainment offerings. He has been the Executive Producer of widely viewed syndicated programming in the United States, including the legendary Twentieth Century Fox program, “A Current Affair”. While there, the program achieved its highest ratings ever. He was also Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed Disney syndicated news magazine series, “The Crusaders”. He then served as Executive Producer of two popular syndicated “TV court” shows; “Judge Joe Brown”, which was the 2nd highest rated court show on television for 12 consecutive years, and “Swift Justice with Nancy Grace”, which was the third highest rated court show when it aired.
Mr. Terenzio has significant experience in sports media. When Fox launched a national sports cable channel, Mr. Terenzio became Executive Producer and Executive Vice-President, and created more than 50 hours of original weekly sports programming for the new network.
Mr. Terenzio served as the President of Programming and Publishing at Broadband Sports, a digital media company that specialized in sports content for both conventional and digital media 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 sports series. Mr. Terenzio also provided consulting services to two thoroughbred racing platforms, TVG and HRTV, when each entity was in its early stages.
Mr. Terenzio frequently provides consulting services to major media entities. He has vast experience in the infrastructure workings of media companies. He has managed large staffs of employees and multi-million dollar budgets. He is well versed not only in content creation and applications, but in sales and revenue strategies and tactics. He also has considerable experience in media overseas, particularly in Asia, Latin America, and Australia. He has created and managed foreign-based media productions, and spent more than three years as the News Corp consultant to CCTV.
Mr. Terenzio has been widely quoted on subjects related to global media in books, magazines, and newspaper articles, including those written by noted media chroniclers Ken Auletta and Jeffrey Toobin. He has spoken on media topics at various symposiums and universities. Mr. Terenzio has been a visiting lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing, frequently lectured at the Los Angeles campus of the Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications and served as a visiting professor at the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. While at Ole Miss, he collaborated with two professors and 5 combined classes of 75 students, to revamp a commercial website that was given to the University. Mr. Terenzio also created a 5-part series of seminars entitled “Selling Media Content and Concepts” for the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
He is a member of the University of Virginia Arts Council, and a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.