NEP UK - Mainly Match Choice for Sky but
also live Premiership Football coverage.
CTV - Match of the Day for BBC Sport around the North of England.
Telegenic - Rugby 7's, Glasgow, Huddersfield and Darlington for Sky.
Speedway from Glasgow. Live Premier League football.
Timeline - FIM Speedway Grand Prix from Cardiff for BT Sport.
Olympic Broadcasting Services - Dave was at Fort Copacabana, Rio de
Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games. Providing installation, engineering and
operational support for Olympic Broadcasting Services, the Olympics
host broadcaster. The same role he succesfully performed for OBS at
Old Trafford, Manchester for the London 2012 Olympics.
Dave was a member of the commentary control team. This involved pulling in
all the cables from the Commentary Control Room to the actual commentary
positions, terminating them and testing with the commentary equipment.
Dave also installed the RF distribution system and television monitors
for each position. On event days Dave assisted the commentators with any
technical problems they had and monitored the commentaries for technical
quality.
Sound Decisions provide feeds of event commentaries to audiences at large
events via small personal radios.
Dave rigs, tests and operates the broadcasting equipment to provide the
signals for these radios. The Royal London Watches
Snooker Grand Prix in Glasgow; Gillette
Four Nations Rugby League Tournament at Doncaster, Huddersfield and
Leeds; International cricket for the ECB and the
Rugby World Cup 2015 in Leeds and Newcastle have all been attended.
Arena Television - Various football outside broadcasts from recorded
Coca-Cola Championship matches for Sky to live Premiership coverage for
Setanta.
Late in 2005 Dave had a very enjoyable 7 day shoot with The Mob Film Company;
Boom Operating on commercials for PC World.
Being shot on 35mm film Dave now has another picture taking format
under his belt. Of course the recording format of the pictures doesn't
matter a great deal to a Boom Operator. If the mic is in shot, it is in
shot no matter how the pictures are stored.
The Leeds Studios - the resources arm ITV Yorkshire (formerly Yorkshire
Television) have used Dave's services extensively since 1999 mainly as a
Fisher boom or fish pole operator.
Programmes include Question Time, Heartbeat,
We Can Work It Out, Bruce's The Price is Right, Countdown, Win My Wage,
Emmerdale and the Emmerdale video Don't
Look Now, Dingles in Venice.
Dave worked on several series of My Parents Are
Aliens from 1999 to 2001 as a Fisher boom operator. This
programme won the best Children's Programme at the Banff Rockie Awards
2001 and earlier the Royal Television Society's programme awards 2000
for best Children's Drama.
Emmerdale has also won a few BAFTAs in
recent years.
Gone, but not forgotten
A varied diet from what was the Outside Broadcast section of BBC Resources
but is now SiS Live. Spring Watch 2005, Match of
the Day, Children In Need, Lenny Henry Goes to Town, Racing from Ascot
and Weetabix Ladies Golf.
No longer has production trucks but the communications side has been taken by
NEP Connect.
Arqiva Outside Broadcasts - Question Time
and The Big Question for Mentorn/BBC.
021 Television - Many of Sky's Football First
recorded Premiership matches since the 2004/5 season. Along with Champions
League coverage for ITV Sport and a few Question Time's
for the BBC.
