William Knoedelseder

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William Knoedelseder
Born1947 (age 7576)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, business writer, tv producer, news executive
NationalityAmerican
Genrenon-fiction
SubjectEntertainment, business
Notable worksStiffed
Bitter Brew
Website
billknoedelseder.com

William Knoedelseder (born 1947) is an American author, former Los Angeles Times business writer, television producer and news executive.

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Early life and education

Knoedelseder, who is from St. Louis, Missouri, [1] graduated with a bachelor of arts in English literature [2] from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. [3]

Career

Knoedelseder was a reporter from 1977 to 1989 for the Los Angeles Times . He also produced news for Knight Ridder, Fox and the USA Network. [4]

His articles in the 1980s into corrupt practices in the record business formed the basis for his book Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business and the Mafia. [5]

In 2012, his book Bitter Brew, which spans five generations of the Busch family and the foreign takeover of Anheuser-Busch, made New York Times Bestseller list. [6] It revealed new information about August Busch IV. [7] In 2019, CBS Television Studios acquired the option to make it into a cable TV series produced by Jeffrey Kramer. [8]

Knoedelseder executive produced two television documentaries – Something's Got to Give, a 1990 two-hour special for Fox about Marilyn Monroe, [9] and All the Presidents’ Movies, [10] a three-hour 2003 special for Bravo that described the viewing habits of modern U.S. presidents.

Knoedelseder worked as a television producer and executive creating news programs and documentaries for Fox, Disney, Knight-Ridder, Bravo and USA Broadcasting. As vice president of news at USA, he oversaw the launch of a nightly news program on WAMI-TV in Miami titled "The Times." [11] Miami New Times named it "Best Newscast in South Florida.”

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