In 1967, Giles became a
television studio director and producer at
WBNS-TV channel 10 in Columbus. Giles won a regional 1976
Emmy Award and the Golden Iris Award from the
National Association of Television Program Executives He directed a three-camera television interview with President Gerald Ford, conducted at the White House by news director
Al Schottelkotte. In 1977, Giles returned to Columbus to help launch the
QUBE interactive cable television service for
Warner Cable, where as one of the program executives he hosted a daily talk show (
Columbus Alive) and worked as a producer. When QUBE expanded to Pittsburgh, Giles returned to head broadcasting and supervised community access production and the design and construction of six television studios. Giles joined John B. Mullin and
Diamond P Sports in 1984, to work on their productions for the
National Hot Rod Association and
The Nashville Network. Among these productions was
One Lap of America, created by
Brock Yates, a one-hour special of the
event airing on
NBC. Giles was then a part of the 1986 start-up team at
QVC, a cable television shopping channel envisioned by entrepreneur and founder of
The Franklin Mint,
Joseph Segel. Giles got the fledgling television operation on the air in less than three months, and by the early 1990s, Giles would rise to executive vice president at QVC. With the advent of
Barry Diller as the new chairman of QVC, Giles would become the Executive Vice President of QVC International with responsibilities for the expansion of the QVC television shopping concept into the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Germany. Subsequently, he worked as a televised-shopping consultant in Australia, Brazil, and South Korea. == Author ==