Interviews with women who work at KBTV-Denver about their lives and careers. Part of a series of documentaries made by Pat Lehman about women employed in the arts industry.
00:05Copy video clip URL Title card: Career Counciling for Women in the Arts. A women and career options project. By Pat Lehman, 1975. Funded by the CARNEGIE FOUNDATION. Mardee McKinlay, Director/Public Affairs, KBTV, Denver. Deborah Johnson, Assistant Producer / KBTV, Denver.
00:29Copy video clip URL McKinley introduces herself and explains the role of a Public Affairs director. She discusses the TV shows that she makes with Johnson as well as her efforts at outreach and engagement. She wishes to keep Channel 9 “involved,” she explains.
02:19Copy video clip URL Johnson and McKinley further discuss the ways in which they try to get the community involved with Channel 9.
04:35Copy video clip URL McKinley refers to herself as maybe “the best example of career education in the country” and discusses her background and her unusual career path that led her to Channel 9.
11:07Copy video clip URL Johnson discusses her career path, involving a number of jobs in television around the country.
15:22Copy video clip URL McKinley expands on one of Johnson’s points about the importance of being in the right place at the right time.
15:50Copy video clip URL Johnson discusses the importance and usefulness of her college degree, even if the subject does not directly contribute to her work in TV.
17:25Copy video clip URL Title card: Career Counciling for Women in the Arts. A women and career options project. By Pat Lehman, 1975. Funded by the CARNEGIE FOUNDATION. Jeannie Olguin, Director / Minority Affairs, KBTV, Denver.
17:33Copy video clip URL Olguin introduces herself and discusses her background, which she characterized as typical of Chicana women in the Denver area. Her degree was in Political Science but she got a secretarial job to help support her family. She discusses transitioning from that work to community organizing to working at KBTV.
21:55Copy video clip URL Olguin discusses her current duties, which include working with all minority groups, ensuring compliance with Affirmative Action policies, and producing TV programs.
25:40Copy video clip URL Title card: Career Counciling for Women in the Arts. A women and career options project. By Pat Lehman, 1975. Funded by the CARNEGIE FOUNDATION. Reynelda Muse, News Commentator, KBTV, Denver.
25:45Copy video clip URL Muse discusses her background, including her education, her time as a radio host and DJ, and her “discovery” by a producer of CBS News in Washington.
30:50Copy video clip URL Breaking into TV news in Denver. The skills required to become a broadcaster.
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