Radio and Television Broadcasting
Klemesrud worked in radio and television broadcasting since 1968. While attending high school in Thompson, Iowa, Klemesrud was a disc jockey for KRIB Radio, Mason City, Iowa. In 1970 he worked as a disc jockey for KWWL AM-FM-TV in Waterloo, Iowa, and produced on camera commercials for a local Ford dealer. When attending the University of Iowa he worked as a TV transmitter engineer for KIIN-TV in Iowa City. In 1977, Klemesrud was hired by Syracuse University in New York as an CMX Systems editor/engineer for video productions at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications under executive director Henry Baker and vice chairperson, Kitty Carlisle. The New York State Council on the Arts granted monies for Synapse Era, a program for visiting artists who used the facilities for the production of creative video art pieces. Klemesrud worked on productions with artists such as Nam June Paik. In 1978 Klemesrud was asked to work at WNET TV (PBS) in New York, NY as CMX editor. In 1979 Klemesrud went to Los Angeles to edit Norman Lear shows, "The Jeffersons" and "The Facts of Life." He also worked for ABC-TV as CMX videotape editor, and in 1980 editing for CBS-TV. In October, 1982 he worked at Complete Post in Los Angeles, a post production facility for high end television shows, and at Paramount Television in the late 1980s. Throughout his time in Los Angeles, he mostly worked for ABC-TV and CBS-TV shows or projects, and retired in 1999.
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