KETC National/International Productions

The KETC National/International Productions page is under construction but will be coming soon. In the meantime, for information about the national/international production unit, contact John Lindsay at (314) 512-9034 or jlindsay@ketc.org.

John Lindsay:
John Lindsay came to KETC in 2007 from Towers Productions in Chicago, where, since 2004, he was vice president of international productions. While there he established co-production alliances with domestic and international partners in London, France, Germany, Singapore and Japan, and with The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel and National Geographic. He is the executive producer of the PBS documentary The 22nd Century, a science pilot broadcast in January 2007.

Prior to that, Lindsay was the executive vice president of Carlton Productions LLC in Princeton, New Jersey, where he developed and executive produced co-productions for PBS, HBO, Court TV, The History Channel and BBC2, among others.

Lindsay spent 14 years at Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), where he served as senior vice president/director, national/international productions. During his tenure, OPB became one of the first local public television stations to secure production commissions from HBO, TLC, Discovery, CNN and ABC Nightline. He helped OPB break into the international co-production market with companies based in the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Productions under Lindsay’s oversight garnered 33 national/international awards including three national Emmys.

Throughout his career, Lindsay has overseen program development and production management of 191 hours of prime-time programming distributed nationally on PBS, including History Detectives, Life 360, and Triumph of the Nerds, plus episodes of seven Frontlines, one Nova and one American Experience. Over the course of his career he’s received seven national Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, three Japan Prize International Educational Program Contest awards and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.