Biography

One of the biggest moments in Ted Ishle's life happened in a restroom. Ted was fresh out of college and had just gotten a job as a tour guide at the NBC Television studios in New York City. Ted was standing in the NBC men's room, when in walked David Letterman, who gave him a nod and proceeded to a neighboring urinal. In a strange way, Ted knew he had made it. Thankfully, most of the other big moments in Ted's career have happened outside the bathroom. Ted has been a staff comedy writer for several TV shows, won an Emmy Award for comedy feature reporting (at KSHB-TV Kansas City, and KTRK-TV Houston), and has had a nightly comedy feature reporting segment on some of the most- watched television stations in the country. In the early 1990's Ted worked as a writer on "The Joker's Wild" game show and later on the Dom DeLuise version of "Candid Camera." Ted later went on to become senior writer/producer at Ovation-TV, an arts network based in Santa Monica, CA. Ted won six Promax Awards in his six years at the network. He then because Director of On Air Promotion at the San Francisco-based Pac-12 Network and helped launch and create the branding for the innovative collegiate sports channel. Ted later returned to local television, working as Creative Services Director for KASW-TV (CW6) in Phoenix, where he built the brand and created and executive produced the weekly show Politics in the Yard -- which won a 2016 Telly Award. In June 2016 Ted became the Creative Services Director for three Milwaukee, Wisconsin television stations -- the CBS affiliate, the Telemundo station and an independent channel. Ted and his wife Beth Albright (a former "Days of Our Lives" actress) have one son -- a University of California, Berkeley graduate who will soon be entering a graduate program.
- IMDb mini biography by: tedish@msn.com