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Associates |
| John A. Taylor III |
Boyertown, PA |
| Harvey Caplan |
Starkville, MS |
| Wes Dooley, AES |
Pasadena, CA |
| Dudley
Freeman |
Framingham MA |
| Lloyd
Smithson |
San Dimas, CA |
John A.
Taylor III
Mr.
Taylor has been an appraiser and broker
of telecommunications equipment for thirty years. A college graduate with a business
degree, Mr. Taylor has served as a Sales Engineer and subsequently President of a firm
manufacturing broadcast equipment. Currently, Mr. Taylor is President of a firm
manufacturing scientific video equipment as well as Senior Appraiser and President of J A
Taylor & Associates.
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Mr.
Taylor has served the Telecommunications Industry as an independent appraiser for
financial institutions, video production companies and television stations. He has
qualified as an Expert Witness before the United States Bankruptcy Courts as an expert in
equipment valuations.
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IN MEMORIAM |
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Harvey
Caplan
Mr.
Caplan's career began as a design
engineer and design group manager in the Aerospace industry. He then moved into the
television broadcast industry in 1960 at CBS Laboratories where his design accomplishments
included the Lunar Orbitor Program, the DRIPS Program, the Linotron System, the Vidifont
and various engineering broadcast projects.
Mr. Caplan's television broadcast
marketing, sales, and management career includes CBS, Thomson Broadcast, Ikegami and
Chyron. He has further served the industry as a broker and as an independent
appraiser for financial institutions, video production companies, television stations and
movie production facilities.
Mr. Caplan passed away February 6, 2012. |
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Wes Dooley,
AES
Mr.
Dooley has been active in the audio
field since 1964. A college graduate with a Broadcast Technology Certification, Mr. Dooley
has designed and installed numerous recording facilities as well as working in production
and post production.
Mr. Dooley is President of Audio
Engineering Associates which specializes in Professional audio equipment designs, sales
and appraisals. He has authored and published papers and been active in the AES, locally
and nationally.
Dudley
Freeman
Mr. Freeman was the Co-Founder and President of UniiGo Communications.
In 1988 he founded Taurus Communications and held the position of President
and CEO. Taurus provided Ku and C band transportable uplink and satellite
services to television and business networks around the world. Taurus was
one of the first companies to utilize MPEG 2, SCPC and MCPC digital
compression for simulcasting and major television network program
contribution. Prior to Taurus Mr. Freeman was the President and Founder of
BAF Communications Corp., one of the first Ku-band transportable satellite
transmission vehicle manufacturing and integration companies. Mr. Freeman
was the first person to utilize transportable technology to transmit the
first live TV news broadcast from the Grand Canyon. In addition, he is a
General Partner in Satellite Business Television (SBT), in the Netherlands,
a leader in providing mobile television vehicles throughout Europe. In 1980
Mr. Freeman was involved with the founders of ESPN by providing them with
remote television facilities at their start-up location in Plainville, CT.
During the late 60’s and 70’s Mr. Freeman was a principal/founder of
Broadcast Productions a mobile unit provider and became VP of National
Teleproductions (NTP) upon acquisition of Broadcast Productions. NTP became
the first independent company to introduce Ampex HS 100 video Slo-Mo
technology for sports. Both companies provided mobile production facilities
throughout the United States to television sports packagers, independent TV
stations and major television networks for news and sports.
Mr. Freeman has over 40 years experience in television equipment and
satellite business.
Lloyd D.
Smithson
Mr. Smithson is the founder & president of
Broadcast Resources, Inc.
He started his career in finance with Bank of America upon completion of his
military service with the U.S.M.C. in 1960. He then migrated into the tax &
accounting field by serving six years with a Los Angeles based Public
Accounting firm. This experience led to his founding his own Tax &
Accounting practice which he owned & operated for approximately 20 years.
Upon retirement and the sale of the accounting practice, Mr. Smithson
accepted a position as corporate controller with a third party logistics
[distribution company] which grew into the Sales/General Managers position.
After a nine year term, He then founded a new Hazardous Materials
Distribution Company that was merged into a publicly traded corporation
prior to his retirement in 2001.
Broadcast Resources, Inc. was founded in May of 2005, and has been
successfully operated servicing the needs of the broadcast television
industry with previously owned & refurbished equipment. |
