Rich Yacco creates his own media projects but is available for select projects as a narrator, writer or editor. Visit his IMDB.com page to learn about some of his credits.
Rich has been a producer/director of programs broadcast on KQED, KRON, KEMO, KTEH, KICU and other west coast stations. Rich also directed a weekly shopping program that was syndicated to more than 100 stations across the U. S., and he has received nominations for national CLIO and local Emmy awards.
Rich has produced, directed and/or written numerous commercials, infomercials, marketing and educational videos for Nissan dealers, Apple Computer, Intel, NASA and many others.
His work for local cable television included reporting stories, anchoring newscasts, hosting talk shows and special events, managing stations and producing/directing commercials and sports/event coverage.
Rich was the second unit director and co-editor of “Kill Squad,” an independent feature that was shown in theaters throughout the world.
In the mid 1990s he taught classes for the University of California Santa Cruz Extension (through the Institute of Computer Technology) and for Cogswell College (at their Cupertino and Sunnyvale campuses.)
From 2003 to 2012 he taught Radio-TV Broadcasting, Design for Electronic Media, and Media Studies in the Media Academy, a California Partnership Academy at Media College Preparatory High School in Oakland. Rich taught broadcasting and filmmaking classes at James Logan High School in Union City from fall 2012 through spring 2021, when he retired from full-time teaching.
In 2022 Rich joined the adjunct faculty at Ohlone College where he taught broadcasting classes part time through the fall of 2023.
