Bill Kobin, a pioneering public television executive who ran Los Angeles pubcaster for 13 years and helped launch the careers of Bill Moyers, Huell Howser and many others, died Friday at his home in Brentwood, CA.
He was 91. No cause of death was given.Kobin worked as a television journalist in the early days of the medium with the Dumont Broadcasting, ABC and CBS News.
He produced The Political Obituary of Richard Nixon, which landed him on Nixon’s famous enemies list. He worked with such famous names as Edward R.
Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner and Andy Rooney but eventually chose to leave the world of the big networks and align with NET in New York, the not-for-profit television startup that was the precursor to the PBS system.
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