Zappia, Marco

Television editor Marco Zappia started out working at RCA repairing television sets before attending Western Electronics School as a night student to earn his degree in electronic engineering. When his wife spotted an advertisement in the newspaper for an engineer in the videotape department at CBS, he read up on the subject, applied, and was hired. Zappia started working as an engineer in the videotape department at CBS, where he helped install the first electronic editing system at CBS. For the next three years he assisted all the editors at CBS, who each had developed different ways of edit...