Producing a TV Talk Show: Bill Geddie, co-executive producer of The View.

The Horse's Mouth

NAME: Bill Geddie | AGE: 52 | HOMETOWN: San Antonio | QUALIFICATIONS: Co-executive producer of The View, on ABC / Executive producer of The Barbara Walters Special and the 10 Most Fascinating People annual special

[bullet] My first job out of film school at the University of Texas [in 1977] was buffing the floors at KOCO-TV, in Oklahoma City. When you buffed the floors--this is how informal television was back then--they let you run camera for the local news. What got me off the floor was that I went to the news director and said I had shot film before, so he gave me a job shooting film.

[bullet] Imagine that putting a show on the air is an endless string of questions...