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Mr. Restivo has been Senior Producer of ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. He is a four-time Emmy Award winner for his work at ABC-TV; as founder and Executive Producer of PM Magazine for Fox’s New York flagship station; and for a special produced for Post-Newsweek. He won the 1986 Emmy Award nomination for best writing in a television special. His TV Baseball Cards series for Hispanic television has been widely syndicated.
He was founding Associate Program Producer for Westinghouse Broadcasting’s national Evening-PM Magazine. His credits as producer and writer span posts at KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh; ABC-TV, New York and other major television and radio stations.
He won two of his Emmy Awards as Executive Producer of New York’s prime time PM Magazine and guided the show he started to four additional Emmys. His third Emmy was for producing Elvis – Love Him Tender with Joel Siegel for ABC-TV and the fourth for They Came To America with Larry King for Post-Newsweek Stations. He has received awards from the International Film and Television Festival of New York, Art Direction Magazine and the Pittsburgh Press Club. His 1986 Emmy Award nomination (national) for best writing was for the very successful, nationally broadcast Soap Opera Special (Linda Ronstadt’s 1989 Grammy winner, “I Don’t Know Much,” is from this hit show).
Mr. Restivo was the first to realize the potential of an information series based on the phenomenal success of serial drama. His widely syndicated Soap Spot series for King World Productions ran nationally for three successful years. He created America’s first daily show on the subject, Soap World, for King World Productions. Recent projects include TV Baseball Cards for Telemundo/Coors Brewing Company and Tom Morgan’s MoneyTalk. Mr. Restivo published a monthly newsletter, Television/ Radio Newsletter, and writes extensively for free-lance clients including the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the International Film and Television Festival of New York and publications such as New York Magazine, Campaigns & Elections, Communication World, Public Relations Journal, Communication Briefings, Backstage/Shoot, and TV Technology. He is a contributing author to the college public and media relations text, “The Believable Organization: An Introduction to Communication Management,” and has appeared as spokesperson for a number of media clients. He is the Broadcast Media columnist for PRCanada, Canada’s monthly public relations eZine.
Mr. Restivo is a long-time member of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
