Kim Spencer is a television broadcaster and producer of more than 60 documentaries and news specials. He helped pioneer satellite “spacebridges” between the US and Soviet Union in the 1980’s, culminating in the Emmy Award-winning "Capital to Capital" series of seven live broadcasts on ABC News and Gosteleradio linking the US Congress with the USSR Supreme Soviet. Spencer was a co-founder in 1982 of Internews Network, which has supported the development of independent media in nearly 100 countries. He was coordinating producer at the launch of ABC News “Prime Time Live” in 1989, producing multiple episodes around the world, including an unprecedented one-hour live broadcast from inside the Kremlin.
In 1999, Spencer was the co-founder of Link TV, the independent satellite network devoted to global affairs. As President and Senior Programming Executive, he developed the Peabody Award-winning daily newscast "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East” (over 2,100 episodes from 2001 to 2012) and was Executive Producer of Link TV's weekly series "Earth Focus," the longest-running environmental program on US television. Spencer retired from Link TV in 2022 and now manages the Transformational Media Fund at the Mediators Foundation.