David Johns is - without wishing to blow his own trumpet too much - pretty darned good at a lot of broadcasting and has the experience to prove it. Radio, TV, even Internet broadcasting have all experienced his magic. Have a read:-
Stations that have enjoyed David's dulcet tones include Virgin Radio, BBC Radio Two, Ocean FM (and the rest of the Ocean Group), 2CR, Southern FM, GWR FM, Mercury FM (Crawley), 2-10 FM, 96.4 The Eagle, BBC Southern Counties Radio, and KM-fm. Some of these were news-reading shifts, others reporting, and still others presenting. Some of the stations even had him back again afterwards.
Corporate TV gave David his first taste of visual glory - pity the unsuspecting viewers who switched on only to have his speccy mug staring back at them. He did two years in the private satellite market (no, not *that* kind, it was for the IT distribution and retail channel). Now David is to be seen ploughing up and down the highways and byways of Kent, East Sussex and south Essex for ITV's regional news programme in the south-east, Meridian Tonight
It was back in the dark ages - 1995 - that the Internet first showed signs of broadcast interest, with the start of streaming radio from Progressive Networks (now Real.com); inevitably, David got involved and handed out invaluable assistance and expertise to webcasting ventures such as Silicon.com, Worldpop.com and culturejam.tv. He even secured Business Angel funding for his own Internet TV venture in 1999, when 56k modems were all the rage and 'broadband' meant an exotic BT HomeHighway ISDN connection. Ah, the heady days of tiny, grainy video windows and forever buffering messages...
PS If I write 'podcasting', perhaps the search engines will pick it up. It seems to be very trendy so I definitely should have it. I have done some, after all.
Being a bit of a technical whizz, David's got to grips with myriad broadcast systems including Avid Newscutter and iNews, Sony Vegas, Adobe Audition, RCS Burli, Quantel Q-Cut, Barrcode BCX and Brian, RCS Master Control, ENPS, GWR Newsflow and Glam, and Enco DAD. Probably some others too but they're too numerous to remember.
He also has access to an audio-video editing suite with Dolby AC3 5.1 surround-sound mix capability and can do any single or multitrack editing and format conversions (mp3, wav, WMA Windows Media, RealAudio, ogg etc) that you require. Ideal for podcasting such as corporate podcasts. Hey, there's that word again.
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