Editing Garth Ancier (section)

==Early life==
Ancier graduated from the [[Lawrenceville School]] in 1975<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lawrenceville.org/about/history/notable-alumni/index.aspx |title=Notable alumni > Business |publisher=The Lawrenceville School |accessdate=October 16, 2014 |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109003646/http://www.lawrenceville.org/about/history/notable-alumni/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Princeton University]] in 1979.<ref name="variety1999"/>

He began his broadcasting career as a [[high school]] [[wiktionary:sophomore|sophomore]] in 1972, working as a [[reporter]] for [[NBC]] radio affiliates WBUD-AM and WBJH-FM in [[Trenton, New Jersey]].<ref name="variety1999">{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/ancier-rejoins-big-three-1117758192/ |title=Ancier rejoins big three |magazine=Variety |date=November 17, 1999 |first=Josef |last=Adalian |accessdate=October 16, 2014 }}</ref> In radio, he created ''American Focus'', a weekly national interview program carried by over 300 radio stations in the U.S., including New York's [[WNBC]], under the non-profit Focus on Youth.<ref name="nyt1984">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/nyregion/student-run-radio-show-is-focusing-on-america.html |title=Student-run radio show is focusing on America|newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 11, 1984 |accessdate=October 16, 2014 }}</ref> Ancier served as [[executive producer]] and host of over 250 episodes through 1979, each featuring a full-length career retrospective interview with guests ranging from [[Ayn Rand]] to [[Henry Fonda]] to [[David Brinkley]].  The show continued production for 17 years.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} Other guests included presidents [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Gerald R. Ford]], [[George H. W. Bush]], and [[Caspar W. Weinberger]], [[Lucille Ball]], [[Howard Cosell]], [[Henry Fonda]], [[Tom Wolfe]] and [[Pete Rose]]. Five hundred of its programs were given to what is now known as the [[Paley Center for Media]] in 1984.<ref name="nyt1984"/>