Chris Balish

Chris Balish is an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, journalist, new media entrepreneur, and on-camera personality with ten years' experience creating and producing innovative original content for broadcast, cable, and digital. After shooting a pilot episode in 2009 for ABC News/The Walt Disney Company, Chris's weekly syndicated entertainment news program, On the Red Carpet, and its companion online news site OntheRedCarpet.com, launched nationally and internationally. In September 2014, after a five-year run, ABC canceled the TV show and shuttered the website. Prior to ABC, Chris helped launch broadcast and digital programming for AMC, AMC Movie News, The CW Network, TV Guide Network, Gannett Company, Hearst, and Clear Channel Communications. Chris has spent more than a decade in news working for NBC's Today Show, MSNBC, CNN, Extra, Discovery Networks, and local news. Chris is also a best-selling author of four books and has won more than thirty awards for excellence in journalism and broadcasting, including seven regional Emmy Awards for local news. In 2015, his book on social media made both the Amazon.com business bestsellers list and the Wall Street Journal bestsellers list. Chris lives in Los Angeles.