How are you looking to build diversity in the industry? Are your customers asking for more-diverse crews?
\n<\/strong>The single biggest way we can stave off the coming labor shortage in our industry is through building and supporting a substantially more diverse workforce. Look around the inside of any mobile unit or behind the camera. How diverse a workforce do you see? The truth is, our business is heavily, heavily weighted with middle-aged and older white men. Of course, there is a number of talented women and minority candidates, but how many of them do we actually see onsite on a regular basis? Not enough, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\nSo we are making a regular, concerted effort to spread our opportunities to a more diverse group of people and ensure that a broad number of the candidates in our training initiatives are as diverse as possible.<\/p>\n
And yes, a number of our clients are specifically asking to see a far more diverse workforce, because they know that having a broader range of people and life experiences contributes positively to the overall and final product that makes air.<\/p>\n
Do you see the significant consolidation in the media sector impacting Program Productions and the crewing business as a whole?
\n<\/strong>Of course, consolidation always creates an element of uncertainty, but the value we bring to our clients and the broadcast industry are applicable regardless of who we are working for or who the rightsholder might be. I\u2019d like to believe that what we\u2019ve built over the past three-plus decades is \u201cclient-agnostic\u201d and benefits every organization we work for and every employee that works with us.<\/p>\nAny other major trends\/changes that you’re seeing in the industry today?
\n<\/strong>Obviously, the alternative production methodologies continue to reshape the broadcast industry. I believe that things like 5G wireless, VR\/AR, and artificial intelligence are going to be bigger and bigger drivers of how shows are produced. But, as I once heard Mike Davies<\/strong> [SVP, technical and field operations, Fox Sports] say at the SVG LiveTV:LA event a few years ago, \u201cIf we replace our technicians with robots, I\u2019m pretty sure they will be Carzoli\u2019s robots!\u201d\u00a0 I think I still owe Mike dinner for that one! Seriously, though, the skill sets our technicians are going to need in the next decade are probably going to be vastly different from what they are today. That being said, our clients are still going to need skilled technicians in the field and in their studios, and we\u2019ll continue to work hard to ensure that we provide professional and cost-effective labor solutions to each of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few organizations are involved in more U.S. live sports productions than Program Productions. As the largest provider of broadcast-production labor services in the country, the crewing company plays a vital […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":153102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,9248],"tags":[15784,7763,9395,7624],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154093,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153100\/revisions\/154093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}