Mary Jo Kinser

ESPN

Mary Jo Kinser is an eight time Emmy Award winning production executive with over twenty five years of experience in film and television. Her productions range from the heights of Mt. Everest to the depths of the ocean floor, to the fields of play in sports. They include the first kayak ascent of the Niagara River, the Newport to Bermuda sail boat race, as well as the documentation of the behavior of killer whales, grey sharks, and Peruvian condors. She has worked in all mediums from film to two inch video to high definition. In 1983 she became the first producer to use an onboard camera/recorder when her production team utilized a Panasonic Re-cam camera on a Mt. Everest summit attempt, before beta-cam had been invented. Most recently she oversaw production of the SportsCentury series in high definition. Mary Jo has overseen productions on all seven continents and been involved in five Olympics.

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