Steve Vocino

Founder and president of WTLN-TV, Teaching Learning Network & award-winning producer of its television programming.

Credits include internationally televised sporting events, critically acclaimed educational programming and documentaries:

• Voices of Vision • DiscoverAmerica • Kids Cafe • College Bound • Pets and Vets • Trailsidea; Make Your Own Adventure • OK: Take It Outside • Roadside Journal • The Traveling Sportsman • Pets and Vets • Classroom of the Future • College Bound

1990 – DiscoverAmerica launched. Over 500 episodes produced depicting the history of North America through the last century.

1995 – Acquired CT-based New Media Inc., a PBS production company, and brought it into the publishing business with the Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure guide books.

2001 – Voices of Vision, nonprofit coalition series distributed on public television, launched to critical acclaim with NPR's Scott Simon as host.

2003 – Vocino appointed chairman of the board of NY based Skyline Multi-Media Entertainment, where he reorganized this publicly traded company and packaged it for sale in 2004.

2005 – Sold TLN Studios as well as some of the intellectual properties to NBCSports, formally Versus, Discovery Networks, The Documentary Channel and various advertising agencies and stock footage houses. Focused on cataloguing, digitizing the DiscoverAmerica footage library.

2007 – Overhauled, significantly expanded volunteer program at WPB-FL's VA Medical Center that teaches veterans computer skills and resume building and rewards those who successfully complete the program with donated, refurbished computers.

2008 – Appointed interim CEO/COO of Medical Staffing Services, a TX company providing per diem medical staff to Air Force Bases, until its restructuring and eventual sale.

Present – Vocino continues to catalogue and digitize TLN's extensive DiscoverAmerica footage library as well as run the WPB VA's Veterans Computer Training program.

Future – Ready to take on a new challenge