Garth Ancier has a favorite photo of himself that was taken when he was only 12 years old. In it, he is operating a "gigantic" RCA color camera on a pedestal. The picture was taken at his first gig in television, working as an intern at the local public television station in Trenton, New Jersey. Ancier, who in the decades to follow would oversee programming and other business in senior positions at NBC, Fox, The WB, CNN Networks and several other Turner networks and, at present, BBC America, recalls that he simply walked into the station one day and asked to work there.
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