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Harvey Ovshinsky and HKO Media have
been awarded broadcasting's highest honors for storytelling including four
CINE Golden Eagle Awards, a national Emmy, a Peabody, a duPont - Columbia
University Award, an Iris Award from the National Association of Television
Programming Executives, and the American Film Institute's Robert M. Bennett
Award for Excellence.
Public television stations across Michigan broadcasted MICHIGAN FOOTBALL MEMORIES,
HKO Media's and Michigan Television's documentary about the
University of Michigan's
125-year-old football program. This year the Michigan Chapter of the National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded an Emmy to HKO
Media's Noah Ovshinsky
for his documentary video, RAOUL WALLENBERG: ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
HKO is currently in development on several full-length documentaries,
including MUMFORD MUSIC and WE WERE CENTRAL, celebrating the legacy of two of
Detroit's most acclaimed and nationally recognized high schools. AIR ACES and
LIVE AT THE GRANDE recall the rise and fall of the legendary underground radio
station, WABX-FM and the popular '60s and '70s rock venue, the Grande Ballroom. THE BROTHERS DODGE explores the remarkable collaborative relationship between John and Horace Dodge and the turbulent relationship the Dodge Brothers had with Henry Ford.
Local for national stories is our mantra. Before starting HKO Media, Harvey was director of production at WTVS (PBS) where he helped supervise the production of the Oscar-nominated, Peabody and duPont-winning documentary WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? as well as MIRACLE ON FORT STREET, the Emmy-winning documentary about members of an inner-city church preparing to perform Handel's "Messiah." Ovshinsky was also the executive producer of Dennis Wholey's nationally syndicated talk show, LATE NIGHT AMERICA.
As a producer at Post Newsweek Stations, Harvey helped create such programs as: LAND GRAB: THE TAKING OF POLETOWN, MORT CRIM'S FREE 4 ALL, A GIFT FOR SERENA, THE DEERHUNTERS, and CITY NIGHTS. Among the programs Harvey helped produce at ABC (WXYZ-TV) were: A.M. DETROIT, KELLY & COMPANY, BILL BOND'S DETROIT, THE BOYS NEXT DOOR, and REVIVAL, a documentary about the revitalization of Detroit.
Harvey produced CITY TALES, an award-winning series of primetime specials produced for children, co-produced by WTVS (PBS) and Post Newsweek. Episodes included: THE VOODOO MAN OF HEIDELBERG STREET, SANTA CLAUS IS ALIVE AND WELL & LIVING IN DETROIT, and THE FIRST HURRAH. Ovshinsky was the executive producer of the 13-part Annenberg/CPB television series for PBS, THE WHOLE CHILD.
Harvey's work as an educator and multi-media innovator has been profiled
in several books including including "Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll", "The Detroit Almanac", "Motor City Memoirs", "Rockin' Down the Dial", "Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties", "Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press", "Detroit's Powers and Personalities", and "From Soupy to Nuts: A History of Detroit Television."
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