Denise LeClair Cobb has enoyed a successful career in television, including being an award winning on-air talent, producer, manager, consultant and station owner. Denise was one of the original news anchors at CNN in Atlanta when that 24-hour news operation was launched and was chosen to anchor the premiere broadcast of CNN Headline News. From CNN, Denise joined News Travel Network as a correspondent and producer. In that capacity, she traveled the country and the world reporting on travel and tourism for television stations across the United States and overseas. When plans were announced to launch the Travel Channel, Denise was asked to come to New York to assist in the hiring and formatting of the new network. She then went on to form her own production company. One of her many assignments was for U.S. Public Television stations, which took her to Mainland China. There she hosted five, live hour-long television programs from Shandong Province, including the first interactive television exchange between students in China and students in the United States. Denise was the last U.S broadcaster to report from China before the massacre at Tianamen Square. She also completed an 18-month project in Vietnam assisting the Vietnamese with developing their television production skills and, with a partner, produced a Vietnamese version of American Bandstand for broadcast throughout the country. It was the first such program produced with help from the West.Denise and her husband, Brian owned the ABC station, WTXL-TV in Tallahassee, and KADY-TV in Los Angeles/Santa Barbara, California, where she oversaw the news and public affairs departments and helped train the young journalists who worked for her.Denise also chaired the public relations committee for the Naples Winter Wine Festival for five years, and was responsible for not only generating local coverage of this world class event, but also National and International coverage.