Eric
Eggleton
Executive Vice President, Content Division
Chief Content Officer
Maryland Public Television
Eric Eggleton, 21-year veteran of broadcasting, entertainment programming,
and content development, joined Maryland Public Television as its chief
content officer in November 1999.
Mr. Eggleton has spent his two-decade career aligning specific target
audiences with program content and corporate strategic objectives. His
award-winning creative affairs portfolio of rights acquisitions, original
properties, and co-productions covers material created for the VCR,
multimedia computers, and analog and digital cable television. He won
the 1998 Genesis Award for the best children's live action dramatic
series, Animal RescueKids, for which he served as executive in
charge of production; earned 64 software industry awards for CD-ROM
editorial content in the mid-1990s; and has been nominated for four
Cable Ace Awards.
Most recently vice president for programming at Discovery Kids U.S.,
a division of Discovery Communications Inc., Mr. Eggleton began his
career in the late 1970s in the advertising and multimedia production
industries. He joined Discovery Channel Enterprises in 1991 as senior
manager of that firmęs home video operations, and a year later he became
director of product development and production. In 1993, he moved to
Discovery Channel Multimedia, holding positions as product group director,
executive producer, and vice president of family interactive product
line operations.
Mr. Eggleton held responsibility for the startup of the $15 million
Discovery Kids programming unit in 1996, and he was executive in charge
of production there until he accepted his new position at MPT.
Mr. Eggleton earned his undergraduate degree in advertising from the
University of Illinois and pursued additional coursework at Harvard
University and Belmont College. He is a member of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences, the National Association of Television
Programming Executives, and the Software Publishers Association.
He lives with his wife and son in Rockville, Maryland.
