Author: Lewis Knight

Lewis C. Knight, Ph.D. is in his fifth year at Southern Wesleyan University, having moved here from The Heart of Texas. He has taught college students on and off since 1994, during which time he worked at The Art Institute of Houston, Texas State University and The University of Texas at Austin. Lewis was program director and read morning drive-time news at WGLS-FM in 1977 and WJIC-FM the following year. Lewis began his TV career later in 1978 as a reporter; videographer/editor for Cox-TV and then with the CBS owned station in Philadelphia; first as an intern and then as assistant production manager. Lewis arrived in Houston in 1980, landing at KUHT Channel 8 as senior videographer. In 1981 Lewis moved to KTRK-TV ABC-13, where he produced the 6am Edition of Good Morning Houston for 12 years and was the line producer of GMH’s 9am show as well as senior videographer/editor. During his tenure at GMH, the shows won numerous awards and were nationally ranked as the number one local TV talk shows in their time slots. Then Lewis moved on... Knight Line Productions was born to provide media clients with “national looking” communication presentations at “local” prices. As owner of KLP Lewis has been producing TV commercials, video presentations, print, graphic and multimedia projects for Texas’ top companies and local retailers since 1992. Lewis also did media consulting and media placement for his clients. Some of Lewis’ larger clients included Coca Cola Bottling of Houston, Compaq, Enron and Halliburton. Through KLP Lewis also did stringer work for ABC, HBO, NBC and Paramount Pictures. Lewis holds a B.A. in Radio, TV & Film/Minor in Broadcast Journalism from Rowan University, an M.A. in Mass Communication/Digital Media from Texas State University, and a Ph.D. in Journalism/Digital Media Psychology & Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin.