Karen Earle Lile
| Karen Earle Lile | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | |
| 💼 Occupation | Art director, designer, producer, radio host, entrepreneur |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Kendall Ross Bean (m. div.) |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
| 🌐 Website | karenlile |
Karen Earle Lile is an American independent art director, producer, radio host, and entrepreneur.[1]from the San Francisco Bay Area. While working in the piano restoration and brokerage business, she produced one of the first classical music videos, formatted as a music video, for the A&E Network. She is also an art director on some cancellation series for the United States Postal Service. Lile hosts the radio show Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and is a regular on Sports Byline USA's programs.
Early life and education
Lile is a third-generation native of San Francisco, California. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982 with highest honors in English.[2] Her work has spanned the public,[3][4] community,[5] and private sectors.[6]
Career
Classical music video
Lile's initial work was intertwined with the burgeoning international trend of rock music videos. In the late 1980s, as rock music videos gained recognition in news and entertainment magazines, television hosts noted the pioneering nature of one of the first classical music videos to air on the Arts and Entertainment Network, Kendall Ross Bean: Chopin Polonaise in A Flat, alongside the MTV Top 10.[7][8]
Lile and Bean, co-founders of Piano Finders[9],[10], leveraged their piano restoration company's expertise to create a glass enclosure around the piano action, enabling the filming of the inner workings of piano hammers, in the music video.[11]
Lile partnered with Local Origination Programming the Televents in Pleasant Hill, CA on this production.[12] As the producer, Lile received a nomination for an ACE Award for Outstanding Programming Achievement[13][14] at a ceremony on May 18, 1987, by the National Academy of Cable Programming in the Ninth Annual System Awards for Cable Excellence in the Music Single category.[15][16]
Art director and Designer
On May 29, 1996, Lile collaborated with USPS on the release of a New Breast Cancer Awareness Stamp (see Breast cancer research stamp under History and description). [17] She served as the Art Director and one of three founders of the USPS Building Bridges Special Postal Cancellation Series.
Lile continues to serve as art director, conceptualizing and producing ceremonies for the ongoing USPS Building Bridges Special Postal Cancellation Series. Past cancellations have featured the SFJAZZ Center,[18] the Lady Washington and Pier 39,[19] the 100th Anniversary of the Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Associations Opening Day on the SF Bay[20] and a tribute to Music Recording History after the closure of Fantasy Studios.[21]
Talk show host
Lile began her association with Sports Byline in 2015, producing three-minute music and sports spotlights featuring the musical careers of sports celebrities like Bernie Williams and Barry Zito.[22] In 2019, Lile and Sports Byline entered an exclusive agreement for her to bring sailing to the network.[23], [24]
The first show, Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile[25] was integrated into Tittilating Sports[26] to introduce mainstream sports enthusiasts to the world of international sailing. As a female talk show host, Lile has interviewed sailing personalities such as Tom Slingsby, Rome Kirby, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Tracy Edwards alongside Rick Tittle, engaging baseball and football fans on Tuesday mornings. [27] [28][29][30][31] from April 4, 2019, to the present. [32][33][34]
On February 18, 2020, a new program, A Cup of Caen with Scotch, began under the Sail Sport Talk brand, featuring Karen Lile and Christopher Caen,[35][36] (son of Herb Caen), as co-hosts, covering the America's Cup and SailGP races. These segments, a continuation of Caen's "A Cup of Caen" coverage of the 2013 America's Cup for the HuffPost, are focused on the current America's Cup races. This content is disseminated across all Sports Byline and Sail Sport Talk platforms.
Personal life
Lile enjoys recreational cruising with friends along the San Francisco Bay, the Pacific Coast, the British Virgin Islands, and the Dhows of Zanzibar's Indian Ocean.[23] She was previously married to Kendall Ross Bean and has two daughters.[37][38]
References
- ↑ "Piano Entrepreneurs". Contra Costa Newspapers. Contra Costa Times. 11 Feb 1985.
- ↑ "Karen E. LIle Bio". Sail Sport Talk. Retrieved 27 Nov 2020.
- ↑ "Health and Safety Today". Contra Costa Newspapers. 26 Oct 1996.
- ↑ Regalia, Gwen (April 1996). "Violence Prevention Month and Building Bridges of Peace" (City of Walnut Creek Proclamation).
- ↑ "Walnut Creek Career Connections Day". Rotary One eClub. Rotary District 5450.
- ↑ "One-of-a-Kind Recording Project Fills Fantasy Studios: Karen Lile, an independent executive producer and co-owner of Piano Finders brings together Grammy winners and top producers for one special benefit album". Music Trades Magazine. Published continuously since 1890 (The Global Issue): 40–42. December 2018.
- ↑ Community Circles YouTube Channel. "Chopin Polonaise in A Flat". Music Video. You Tube on 23 July 1986.
- ↑ Magazine, Entertainment (1 July 186). "Entertainment Magazine". TV Magazine. KSL TV. KSL TV. Retrieved 1 Jan 2012.
- ↑ Official Website Piano Finders
- ↑ "Piano Finders Connecting People Who Love Pianos Around the World". Music Trades Magazine. December 2015.
- ↑ Brown, Steven (24 July 1986). "Roll over, Chopin - music video takes cue from MTV". Article. The Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 1 Oct 2012.
- ↑ Ulrich, Alan (23 July 1986). "Get Ready for Chopin on Video". Article. San Francisco Examiner. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ↑ Hawkins, Ronald. "Effective local origination some tips from ACE Award-winning cable systems as they assess how they make local origination work for them". Cable Television Business Magazine.
- ↑ Gross, Edwin T. Vane ; Lynne S. (1994). Programming for TV, radio, and cable. Boston [u.a.]: Focal Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780240801285. Search this book on
- ↑ Awards, ACE. "ACE Award Nomination for Producer Karen Lile for "Chopin Polonaise - Kendall Ross Bean"". National Academy of Cable Programming. Retrieved 4 Oct 2016.
- ↑ Award Nomination, ACE. "Kendall Ross Bean Chopin Polonaise in A Flat. Producer Karen Lile". Award. Retrieved 4 Oct 2016.
- ↑ "USPS Building Bridges Ceremony at USPS Walnut Creek Main Post Office". Live Television Coverage. TCI Cablevision. Contra Costa TV. 29 May 1996.
- ↑ Ruiz Jr., Augustine. "USPS Building Bridge Special Postal Cancellation Commemorating 80th Year of Music Recording in San Francisco and SF Jazz". USPS. United States Postal Service on 17 April 2017.
- ↑ Ruiz Jr., Augustine. "USPS Building Bridge Special Postal Cancellation Commemorating 30th Birthday of Lady Washington Tall Ship". USPS. United States Postal Service on 22 April 2019.
- ↑ Ruiz Jr., Augustine. "USPS Building Bridge Special Postal Cancellation Commemorating 100th Anniversary Opening Day on the San Francisco Bay". USPS. United States Postal Service on 17 April 2017.
- ↑ Mary Corbin., Tracey Taylor. "Post Office marks 70 years of music recording in Berkeley with special postmark". USPS. Berkeleyside Newspaper on 16 Nov 2018.
- ↑ "End polio message goes to sports fans around the world". Rotary One eClub. Rotary District 5450.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 PICYA, Yachting Yearbook 2020 (1 April 2020). Sailing into Mainstream Sports Broadcasting - Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile (99th ed.). Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Association. pp. 46–48. Search this book on
- ↑ "Rear Commodore Jennifer Woods on Sail Sport Talk". Royal Thames Yacht Club Sailing News: 1. 1 Nov 2019.
- ↑ "Sail Sport Talk broadcast to 100 million people in 168 countries". California Delta Chamber and Visitors Bureau. 8 Dec 2019.
- ↑ Leonard, Jake (11 April 2020). "Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network: Titillating Sports with Rick Tittle". Heartland Media Group of Central Illinois LLC. Heartland News Feed. Retrieved 24 Nov 2020.
- ↑ Roger Ebert review on the movie "The Maiden"
- ↑ Bing: Tom Slingsby on Sail Sport Talk
- ↑ Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle catch up with Tom Slingsby, the Sail GP skipper of team Australia.
- ↑ Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
- ↑ iheart Radio Archive of Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Terry Hutchinson Captain of America's Cup NYYC American Magic Team
- ↑ Tittlating Sports with Rick Tittle on Sports Byline USA
- ↑ CRN Talk Tittleating Sports
- ↑ Rick Tittle Interviewed for Athletic's Nation
- ↑ Caen, Christopher (28 Sep 2013). "A Cup of Caen: A Day with Oracle". Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 Nov 2020.
- ↑ Caen, Christopher (6 Aug 2013). "A Cup of Caen: The Spying Game". Huff Post.
- ↑ "Hope For Budding Pianists – Bransford School Gets New Piano". Daily Republic. 26 Feb 1993.
- ↑ Wells, Bill (Feb 2020). "Karen Lile and Sail Sport Talk". Bay & Delta Yachtsman.
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