Corporon served two years in the Army 1953-55. He was a reporter for United Press in New Orleans starting 1955. Later, he became Baton Rouge bureau chief before becoming bureau manager. He was hired by WDSU-TV in 1958 as a Washington reporter. In 1960 became he political reporter for WDSU covering Louisiana and Mississippi politics and the civil rights movement and became news director of WDSU in 1961.
He became news director of WNEW-TV New York and founded the city’s first 10 o’clock news in 1967. Later he became vice president for news for Metromedia stations in New York, Washington, Kansas City and Los Angeles. In 1968 became vice president and general manager for WTOP-TV, Washington. In 1971, he established Newsweek Broadcasting Service and became vice president/news director of WPIX in 1972 and added a 7:30 newscast to the 10 o’clock news.
Corporon co-founded Independent Television News Service in 1975, the first satellite news gathering and distribution service in the U.S. at WPIX, established the Independent Network News, which provided a prime time newscast to more than 100 independent stations in the U.S., set up and produced a weekly half hour Wall Street Journal Report and a weekly program derived from the Christian Science Monitor.
The Radio Television News Directors Association awarded WPIX the Edward R. Murrow award as the best TV newscast in the U.S. Corporon coproduced the Martin Agronsky Report at WTOP which became nationally syndicated. At WDSI, Corporon introduced the first full time editorial cartoonist to supplement the station’s daily editorials. Corporon was part of the team which won a Peabody at WDSU and later at WPIX.
Corporon retired in 1996 and was elected president of the Overseas Press Club and served from 1996 to 1998. Currently he is vice president of the OPC Foundation and serves as trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas. He is Past President of the New York Associated Press Broadcasters and the National AP Broadcast Board. He is married to Harriett and has two sons and four grandchildren. He has lived in Brooklyn since 1971.