OpenRoad.tv
- The Traveler's Video Guide to the American West
We hope you enjoy OpenRoad.TV and that it helps you imagine and plan your own journeys in the American West, including Alaska and Hawaii. We’ve spent many years traveling the West and telling stories of our trips on video for KRON Television in San Francisco. We’ll give you our best stories and recommendations and ask you to send us your ideas, experiences and tips in words, pictures and video. Together, we can build a rich resource for anyone interested in following the OpenRoad wherever it leads, and we can create a large and dynamic community of fellow travelers. Most of all, we can have a good time while appreciating and caring for this spectacular place on earth. We’ll be starting in northern California and also in and around Las Vegas and the desert Southwest. We’ll soon add material from Hawaii and elsewhere in the West. But don’t wait for us. We’d love to hear from you wherever you travel. If you’d like to know more about who we are and our operating values, take a moment to watch our "What's OpenRoad.TV?" video or read more About Us below. In any case, have fun on the OpenRoad, online and in real life.
About Us
What's OpenRoad.TV? Explore by Interest Category:
Explore by Geography:
- Central and Central Coast, California
- Central Valley, California
- Eastern Sierra
- Gold Country
- High Sierra / Lake Tahoe
- Mendocino Coast
- Napa / Sonoma
- Nevada/Arizona/Utah
- San Francisco (city of)
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Sequoia / King's Canyon
- Shasta / Cascade / Modoc
- Yosemite
Sample Video Story Pages
Cruising Alaska's Inside Passage
Monterey Bay Aquarium Inside Look
About OpenRoad.TV's Host Doug McConnell
Doug McConnell is a television journalist who has focused on environmental issues, with programs on the air continuously since 1982. He has created, produced and hosted many series, special programs, and news projects for local, national and international distribution. His broadcast awards include multiple Emmys, an Iris, and a Gabriel.
Since 1993, McConnell has been the host and senior editor of the Bay Area Backroads television program in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has also authored a book by the same name. "Backroads" explores the paths less traveled in northern California and beyond. "Backroads" is consistently the highest-rated locally produced, non-news program in the nation's sixth-largest market.
In addition to "Bay Area Backroads," McConnell's TV programs include:
- Mac and Mutley, Producer and Host, KPIX-TV, Discovery Channel USA, Discovery International, and Westinghouse International
- The Adventurers, Host, Discovery USA and Discovery International
- Wild Things, Host, Discovery USA
- Wild Guide, Narrator, Westinghouse International and Discovery’s Animal Planet Channel
- Petline, Co-Host, Discovery’s Animal Planet Channel
- Preview Vacation Bargains, Co-Host, NBC stations in eight cities
- Pacific Currents, Producer and Host, KPIX-TV
- KING 5 Magazine, Producer and Reporter, KING-TV in Seattle
McConnell’s national specials and mini-series include:
- Discoveries of a Lost Voyage, Co-Host, Discovery USA
- Secrets of Alcatraz, Producer and Host, Discovery USA
- Secrets of Alcatraz: Return to the Rock, Producer and Host, PBS
- Secrets of the Gold Rush, Producer and Host, PBS
- Secrets of the Wine Country, Producer and Host, PBS
- Big Cat Tales, Host, Discovery USA
- Prime Time Primates, Host, Discovery USA
- The Crusaders, Pilot, Producer and Reporter, Buena Vista Television
McConnell received an Master's degree in Political Science from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (1968), and a Bachelor's degree in Government from Pomona College (1967).
Since 1983, McConnell has lived in the Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and a bevy of pets. He maintains a busy schedule of community activities and has been honored recently by the Marin Humane Society as "Humanitarian of the Year," by the San Francisco Bay Trail Project as "Volunteer of the Year," and by California State Parks as "Honorary Ranger of the Year."
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Featured Text -- Today's featured WikiPage does something we think is great -- they've added a YouTube video which helps explain what their website does. OpenRoad.tv is an internet startup offering stories and recommendations for travels and journeys in the American West (including Alaska and Hawaii); with video segments from a seasoned journalist who hosts the Bay Area Backroads travel show for KRON television in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to produced video segments, OpenRoad.tv provides visitors the ability to add their own stories and travel recommendations and join discussion groups filled if other interested in "following the open road."
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