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Rob Word, a television writer and producer, has held senior management roles at PaxTV Network, Orion, ITC, Qintex, Hal Roach Studios, Filmways, CST Entertainment, and has worked as a senior producer and creative consultant for Columbia TriStar, Lionsgate, MGM-UA, GetTV, and Starz/Encore Media.
As Executive Vice President at Insight Films, he oversaw the production and delivery of over 30 TV movies annually. Word also developed and executive produced Insight's series Painkiller Jane, based on the popular graphic novel, for the SyFy Channel. While serving as Senior Vice President of Programming & Production at PAX Television Network, he managed the production and development of numerous prime time series, including the swashbuckling adventure Young Blades starring Bruce Boxleitner. He created and produced 65 half-hour episodes of the cartoon Totally Tooned In for Columbia TriStar International Television. For Universal Television, Word wrote, produced, and directed successful pilot presentations for Hercules, Bandit, TekWar, Midnight Run, and Dragon, which launched the weekly first-run series The Action Pack Network and its spin-offs. He also created and produced the TV series Bad Sci-Fi for Nelvana and 26 ninety-minute episodes of The Laurel and Hardy Show for The Comedy Channel.
As a founding member and producer of the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Golden Boot Awards (1983-2007), Word’s passion for the Western genre is reflected throughout his career. His Western credits include hosting, writing, producing, and directing YouTube’s weekly celebrity interview series A Word on Westerns at the Autry Museum since 2014; producing the live event Memories of Lonesome Dove with Robert Duvall at the MET Theatre in Hollywood; writing and producing the top-rated CBS movie Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone; hosting, writing, and producing Western Round-Up starring Roy Rogers for PBS; managing marketing for the mini-series Lonesome Dove; producing 13 half-hour episodes of Young Duke: The Series; and executive producing Roy Rogers: An American Hero for A&E's Biography.
Additional TV movie producing credits include Attack of the Killer B Movies featuring Elvira for NBC; The Adventures of William Tell starring Robert Forster for the Family Channel; Robin Hood: The Movie, Robin Hood's Greatest Adventure, and Quest for the Crown for ITC and the Disney Channel; Bush Doctor, Peking Encounter, Secret of the Black Dragon for syndication; and the Emmy-nominated An Ozzie and Harriet Christmas for Golden West Broadcasters.
Word began his career as a cinematographer and editor for ABC News in central Florida and later became a programmer and movie host on WTOG (Tampa), WFTV/ABC (Orlando), and WINK/CBS (Fort Myers). After programming roles at WCGU/FOX (Milwaukee) and WTTO (Birmingham), he served as Program Director and co-owner of KHIZ in Los Angeles/Victorville. Recently, he was Executive Programming Consultant at Sony Television’s GetTV and previously Starz/Encore. He also hosted movies for the Z Channel in Beverly Hills and the syndicated celebrity interview series Stardom.
Beyond the Golden Boot Awards, Word has hosted and produced numerous live events, including the Memorial Tribute to Clayton Moore at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage and Western Memories, a musical evening featuring Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan, Wilford Brimley, and The Sons of the San Joaquin. He has received a Golden Boot Award, a plaque at the Lone Pine Film Festival, and is a sought-after host and panelist at film festivals nationwide. Word is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Writers Guild of America. He has participated in Ben Johnson Charity Rodeos and competes in Celebrity Mounted Shooting. He co-authored the book Fridays with Art, recounting humorous stories from syndicated television, and is a co-author of the upcoming book 52 Weeks * 52 TV Westerns.
A graduate of Stetson University, where he serves on the alumni board, Word also attended graduate school at the University of South Florida and taught an undergraduate course on the History of Television.
