Candi Carter
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| Born | (1969-02-19) February 19, 1969 (age 55)
Detroit Michigan, U.S.
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| Education | Boston College |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
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Candi Carter (born February 19, 1969) is an American broadcast executive and television talk show producer. She has won two Daytime Emmy Awards, one in 1994 for Outstanding Children's Programming Special on WISN-TV, and another in 2020 for Outstanding Informative Talk Show for The View.
Carter began her career as a programming producer at WISN-TV in 1993. Since then, she has worked as a producer on shows ranging from The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyler Perry Show, Just Keke, Ice & Coco, The View, and Tamron Hall.[1][2]
From 1996 to 2011, Carter worked on The Oprah Winfrey Show, starting as an associate producer and becoming senior producer of the show.[3][4]
From 2015 to 2020, Carter served as the executive producer on The View television talk show. Carter was nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards for her role as the executive producer on The View in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.[5][6] In 2020, the show won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informative Talk Show". It was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame that same year. According to Essence magazine, Carter was the first black woman to executive produce the show.[7][8][9]
In March 2020, Carter became the executive producer & showrunner on Tamron Hall. She left in the fall of 2021.[10][11]
In 2022, Carter joined Knocking.com, an e-commerce production company, as its chief content officer.[12][13][14]
