 Attracting the Attention of Local & National Media
Greg Moody, critic at large for CBS4 and author We met at the Denver Press Club and listen to Greg Moody, CBS4's Critic at Large, talk about television, writing novels and working with the entertainment industry. He gave tips about working with television producers and book promotion and marketing. Not only is Greg a veteran in the radio, television and newspaper business, but he's a best selling author, with five books in print. Greg has the perfect combination of experience to help you crack the code for getting the attention of the local and national media.
CBS4's Critic at Large Greg Moody was born into a small family of itinerant Irish folk dancers and pest exterminators known as "The Galway Ant Stompers." His parents are lovely people who have spent their lives building solid reputations in the community and have asked not to be named here.
Moody attended Plainwell High School and Western Michigan University, School of Paper Technology, where he graduated in 1974 with a degree in Theater and Film, a minor in English, two nasty paper cuts and the distinct disgust of his professors.
After touring as an actor in a professional company of Godspell, he moved to New York City and worked as a freelance United States Senator as well as a stock-room boy and standup comedian. In 1975, Moody made the expected career move, jumping from comedy in New York City to hospital orderly in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was followed closely by a loud dismissal from the medical profession and a job at a 500-watt All News Radio Station. His performance as Grand Rapids' Critic at Large (His review of "South Pacific" is still pilloried, even today. Shouldn't they get over it? I mean, it has been 30 years!) led to a job as Critic at Large in Milwaukee radio and then, after a surprise format change, to the job as TV/Radio Columnist for The Milwaukee Sentinel.
The six-day-a-week column at the Sentinel got him noticed in Milwaukee TV.He was hired away by WITI (CBS) in 1981 and spent five years working as a Greg-Of-All-Trades with no set job description. In 1986, he moved to KUSA-TV in Denver as Critic at Large, before bringing his act to CBS4 in 1988.
In his 17 years at CBS4, Moody has won twelve regional Emmy awards for commentary and writing in subjects ranging from movies to TV, newspapers to books, Hollywood history to journalistic ethics. He is also the producer of the Emmy-award winning SHOW. The program was a weekly entertainment newscast for three years, before becoming a quarterly entertainment magazine on CBS4 in 2003. Moody is the best-selling author of five mysteries, "Two Wheels," "Perfect Circles," "Derailleur," "Deadroll," and "Dead Air," all published by VeloPress in the United States and Germany.
He is married, has two children, two dogs and one cat that insists on sleeping on his head. Moody lives comfortably in a perpetual state of denial, just over the border from mild dementia. He hopes to someday be asked back to the daily drama, "As the World Turns," in order to once more play the classic role of "Mel Smenk -- Odious Man." return to top
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