About Ronald Scott Maestri
Ron Maestri's career began in radio as part-time Public Affairs Director/Promotions Manager for a mellow rock FM radio station in Las Vegas, Nevada, KUDO-FM 93. It was this opportunity that connected him to the needs of dozens of non-profit organizations providing them the voice to communicate their message to the local community. Ron created and hosted groundbreaking shows that sought to be entertaining and not typical public affairs tune-outs. Shows like "FM Magazine" utilized the skills of Maestri, along with every other on-air talent as a means of utilizing the station's resources and to garner a larger audience, which the show did successfully, eventually moving into prime-time.Within 6 months, Ron Maestri was promoted to full-time Operations Manager, in charge of all station talent & programming, also writing & producing highly creative radio ads for station clients. They quickly caught the attention of an ad agency president, who offered Ron a position upon departure from KUDO. Ron accepted, and became Production Director for Ryan Advertising, a leading retail ad agency in Las Vegas, writing, producing and directing all of the agency television and radio commercials. Several spots earned Ron and the agency ADDY Awards for excellence.Becoming on camera spokesman for Desert GMC trucks, Ron remained their spokesman for 10 years. It was through this exposure that led Ron to KRLR TV, "Vusic", the nation's first full power 24hour music video television station, where Ron Maestri became their first male VJ, hosting "Wake-Up with Ron" weekday mornings (the only music video show on the station's schedule to get ratings) where he created multiple zany characters, including Skier Joe & Uncle Wally. Ron also hosted a weekly Saturday night show, as well. Additionally, he hosted their one-hour show, "Vegas 21", syndicated to multiple station's throughout the U.S. He produced an original music video for a local band, which won the station's contest searching for the best group. When the station transitioned into conventional programming, Ron stayed on as their Program Director/Promotions Producer. So did Uncle Wally, as their kids' show host, and he hosted regular daily interstitial coming up billboards in prime-time.Relocating to Los Angeles, Ron created and hosted "RocQuiz", an all rock n' roll trivia game show pilot. Directed by Byl Carruthers ("Press Your Luck"), the show was quickly optioned by Shelley Duvall's Think Entertainment for national cable distribution.Ron hosted 130 episodes of the game show series "Quicksilver" for Stone-Stanley and the USA Network, which became their #1 rated original game show series. Before the show was sold to Stone-Stanley, Ron hosted presentations for Kushner-Locke ("1st and Ten"), CBS and Merv Griffin.Never stopping producing, Ron produced and directed national news magazine-style infomercial CTA's (call-to-action) long form commercials, opens and bumpers, personally directing Joan Collins, Jaclyn Smith, Dennis Weaver, Linda Dano and Bruce Jenner, among others. At a time when infomercials of the day were poor quality, Ron elevated the caliber with the simple premise that if every product was made to look like a million dollars, the price reveal would look like a bargain. It was these high gloss spots that ultimately set the example, and has now became the norm in that industry. Ron produced/directed for California Production Group, DirectAmerica, Guthy-Renker, Quantum and National Media for a decade.Spot...