Lessons from 25 Years of Broadcast Sports and Entertainment Production, With Howie Zales

Filed in Podcasts, Previous Episodes on May 4, 2021

Howie Zales is an Emmy Award winning Camera Operator who turned his passion for television broadcasting into several entrepreneurial endeavors. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, his companies quickly pivoted to offering best in class, broadcast quality livestreams of professional sports shows and interviews, corporate interviews and meetings, and religious services.

Howie joins Adam to share his secrets of the trade for your livestream needs.

Discover:

  • How broadcasting and livestream events have changed over the last year;
  • How relevant quality livestreams are to corporate interviews and meetings;
  • What the benefits are of starting a second business that competes with your original business;
  • And much more!

If you are doing livestream events or plan on it in the future, this is a don’t miss episode!

About This Guest: ()

Howie Zales is an Emmy Award winning Camera Operator who turned his passion for television broadcasting into several entrepreneurial endeavors. Howie created HJZ Productions, Inc in 2000 to address the need for professional level sports crewing/staffing in the New York market. Under his leadership, HJZ Productions grew to a multi-million nationwide provider of top talent in the broadcasting field. In 2019, Howie and his team founded Viridity Entertainment Services, Inc. (VES) which initially focused on staffing in non-union markets. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, they quickly pivoted to offering best in class, broadcast quality livestreams of professional sports shows and interviews, corporate interviews and meetings, and religious services. In addition, Howie took his love of the television production business and created The TV Sports Course, a hands-on training boot camp for the next generation of television crew professionals. Howie is a graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh’s Mass Communication program.