John Conboy

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John Conboy is an American soap opera producer.

Conboy is best known for bringing glamorous production values to a show soon after he is hired. Such things as adding elaborate sets, dimming the lighting, hiring beautiful young actors to cast his shows, and using unique camera angles. These things innovatived soap operas in the 1970s when Conboy was Executive Producer of The Young and the Restless.

In 1982 Conboy left The Young and the Restless and became Executive Producer of the newly created CBS soap opera Capitol. He served as the show's Executive Producer until the series was cancelled in 1987.

Conboy was hired as Executive Producer of the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in 1990. But show's ratings did not improve and he was let go in 1992.

After being out of daytime television for a decade Conboy was hired as Executive Producer of the longest running program in broadcast history, Guiding Light in late 2002. But the show's ratings continued to drop and after a little over a year Conboy was fired in early 2004.