Bob Pondillo, Ph.D., was a professor of mass media history and American culture at Middle Tennessee State University, where he also taught screenwriting classes. He is the author of “America’s First Network TV Censor: The Work of NBC’s Stockton Helffrich,” as well as numerous journal articles on early network TV censorship. He was on the graduate school faculty in mass communication and taught in MTSU’s Honors College program. Pondillo had more than 30 years of media industry experience before coming to academia. In 2002 he was inducted into The Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.
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