Ron Simon has been a curator at The Paley Center for Media since the
early 1980s. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia
University, New York University, and Hunter College, where he teaches
courses on the history of media. Simon has written for many
publications, including The Encyclopedia of Television and Thinking
Outside of the Box, as well as serving as host and creative consultant
of the CD-ROM Total Television. A member of the editorial board of
Television Quarterly, and a judge on the George Foster Peabody
committee, Simon has lectured at museums and educational institutions
throughout the world. Among the numerous exhibitions he has curated
are The Television of Dennis Potter; Witness to History; Jack Benny:
The Television and Radio Work; and Worlds Without End: The Art and
History of the Soap Opera. He also discovered such lost programs as
the live Honeymooners and the only video performance of the Rat Pack.