[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23829]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      PAYING TRIBUTE TO MITCH FOX

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                           HON. JON C. PORTER

                               of nevada

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, December 8, 2006

  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor my good friend Mitch 
Fox for his outstanding career and innovative contributions in 
broadcast and print journalism.
  Mitch began his broadcasting career at KABC-TV Los Angeles as an 
intern and later apprenticed there as a cameraman. Less than 2 years 
later in 1976, Mitch relocated to Las Vegas where he began his first 
on-air reporting position with KTNV Channel 13. During his tenure in 
Las Vegas he has also served as a freelance writer for the Las Vegas 
Review-Journal, the Las Vegas Sun, Newsweek and Nevada Magazine.
  Mitch began covering the Nevada State Legislature in 1979 and 
currently produces a weekly series entitled ``Capitol Issues'' during 
Nevada's biannual legislative session. He has also moderated several 
candidates' debates, some of which air nationally on C-SPAN. Mitch 
initiated collaboration with the Las Vegas Review-Journal where RJ 
readers were able to post candidate questions on the newspaper's 
website for use during Channel 10's election debates and since 1996, he 
has brought KLVX and the NBC affiliate KVBC together to produce prime-
time election coverage.
  It was 1978 when Mitch embarked on his long broadcast career in 
public television at KLVX Channel l0. He began as senior news and 
public affairs producer and was later promoted to news and public 
affairs manager in November 1997. Five years later, in June 2002, Mitch 
was further promoted as director of production services at KLVX where 
he supervised the entire programming department, including the 
oversight of 30 full-time and part-time employees. In this position he 
has also managed oversight of Channel l0 and Cox Cable Channel 70 
programming schedules. In July of 2005, Mitch became director of 
programming at KLVX and has helped to ensure that the station remains 
well-versed in use of digital media such as video-on-demand, 
multicasting, podcasting and online streaming.
  For 11 years Mitch produced the award-winning documentary series 
called ``Real to Reel'' and won an Emmy nomination in 1993 for a 
documentary on nuclear waste. And now for nearly 20 years Mitch has 
been host and producer of the popular public affairs talk show, 
``Nevada Week in Review'' providing viewers with insightful debate, 
discussion, and analysis of the most important Nevada news stories of 
the week. One of his goals in serving as a leader in public television 
has been to creatively provide a quality alternative to commercial 
television. Not only has Mitch Fox worked to build bridges within the 
broadcast community, but he has also helped lower the high school drop-
out rate over the past 20 years by assisting the Clark County School 
District in developing distance learning programs for K-12 students.
  Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to pay tribute to my friend Mitch Fox 
for his longstanding service and dedication to the public broadcasting 
system and to the communities of Nevada. I wish him the best in all of 
his future endeavors.

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