Digital Video Information Network and Digital Video Forum Crew Member
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. He now runs his own video production company but his CV contains all this marvellous stuff too:-
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, BBC Radio Kent 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. These days he's mostly found hanging out in the BBC Radio Kent newsroom.
Corporate TV gave David his first taste of visual glory, doing two years on a private satellite channel (no, not *that* kind, it was for the IT distribution and retail sector). Until recently, David was 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. He also turned up occasionally on ITV London and ITV Anglia. David has now left Meridian but still freelances there occasionally as well as at ITN, GMTV (soon to be "ITV Daybreak") and BBC South East Today.
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...
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 has access to a full high-definition video filming kit as well as 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, delivering the final result on CD, DVD or Blu-Ray.
In 2009, David graduated from the University of Kent with a First Class LLB (Hons) degree in Law, specialising in media and intellectual property, after studying part-time for five years. He also has a degree in Computer Studies from Loughborough University of Technology but that was only a 2:2 because he spent too much time at the student radio station instead of studying. David has passed his NCTJ media law qualification too. He is old enough to have taken 'O' levels instead of GCSEs but doesn't look it.
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