NBC.com Scores at the 2009 Emmys
NBC.com took home a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Nonfiction for “The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience” at the Creative Arts ceremony in Los Angeles tonight. We had six nominations overall this year, bringing our Emmy tally to three wins and fourteen nominations in just the past three years.
Congratulations to the entire Late Night with Jimmy Fallon team and all the behind the scenes contributors.
Check out why we won here: http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/
The other Primetime Emmy nominations this year for NBC.com included:
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction
- The 30 Rock Digital Experience • NBC.com
- The Office Digital Experience • NBC.com
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Nonfiction
- The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience • NBC.com
- The Saturday Night Live Digital Experience • NBC.com
Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Nonfiction Programs
- Jay Leno’s Garage • jaylenosgarage.com • NBC.com
Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs
- 30 Rock’s Kenneth the Web Page • NBC.com • Universal Media Studios
xSAN Production Lab
24 terabytes of production storage, five fiber channel workstations, Signiant based automated delivery workflows, LikeWise Enterprise active directory integration, and a compete overhaul of NBC.com’s Video Production Lab.
Working with NBCU’s Broadcast Technology Initiatives group, I planned, executed and provide on-going support for a significant upgrade to the xSAN based production system used to edit & process ALL of NBC.com’s video offerings. Completed over the course of a nine days, this upgrade involved a total archive/backup/restore of ALL current system data, restripeing of the xSAN volume, workstation image build & deployment, server configuration and end-to-end speed testing.
This upgrade inculded the following software packages:
- Apple OS 10.5 Leopard (workstation & server)
- Apple xSAN 2
- LikeWise Enterprise (AD Integration)
- Signiant (Accelerated Delivery Workflows)
- Adobe Creative Suite 4
- 25 additional pieces of production & productivity software
Addationally planning is currently underway for a major hardware overhaul and expansion including new storage, workstations, Final Cut Server, and addational backup/redundancy systems.
NBC.com Wins SIX Webby Awards
It was announced this morning that NBC.com was awarded six Webby Awards. The site had seven nominations overall this year. This brings the grand total of Webbys awarded to NBC.com to ten in just the past three years. Among the winners announced this morning were the “Heroes” and “The Office” webisodes as well as the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” web series and NBC Rewind, the site’s full episode player.
As a member of the NBC.com Broadband Operations team working with the Rewind Player is a significant part of my daily workload, prepping and delivering videos to ensure the highest quality user and advertiser experience. Currently I am responsible for ALL full episodes for The Office (highlighted as part of the Webby win), Heroes, The Celebrity Apprentice, Parks and Recreation and many more.
Superbowl XLIII
Watch ALL the commercials online at NBC.com/super-bowl
For Superbowl XLIII, NBC.com supported the biggest broadcast in television history (151.6 milltion total viewers) with a micosite covering the flavor-of-the-event including the parties, celebrity interviews and of course the commercials!
Throughout the weeks leading up to the event and on gameday, I took the operational lead for ALL of the over 130 video clips posted to the site - including almost 70 on game day alone. This involved setting up initial asset delivery workflows, collecting and entering metadata, deploying assets in real-time on gameday and managing the presentation and organization of the content.
Additionally I coordinated the video component of our “Jumbo-Tron” experience, designed to share exclusive video clips (featuring NBC talent) shown in-stadium during the actual game.
Checkout sample videos after the jump or visit NBC.com for the complete library:
Reality Casting Application
Initially developed for Hallock Healey Entertainment in Los Angeles, Be on TV Now.com provided the production company with an easy-to-use web based reality casting system. Built upon the Taleo Talent Management Platform, the system allowed candidates to submit detailed applications from the comfort of their homes. Once submitted, the system provided backend tools to automatically “knock-out” candidates with significant red-flags, efficiently review & process applications in bulk, and shepherd top talent through the interview and background check process.
For this project I completed initial research resulting in selecting Taleo as our backend solution provider, designed the frontend application template and implemented the backend processing workflow.
In addition to the custom graphics designed for the website, I also created a promotional package including flyers, business cards and other print collateral.
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- Welcome
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- Call Description
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- Application
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- Recruiter Dashboard
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- Candidate Review
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- Flyer
Murrow Marketing Blog
Watch the rest of the videos at: http://www.murrow-blog.com
Produced as an extension of the successful Living the Murrow Legacy videos shot in 2006, this project was designed to promote the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication as a world-class institution to learn the craft of communication. This series of videos was thus produced under the theme of With a Degree from the Murrow School you can go Anywhere! Over the course of 10 days Kate Yeager (’07 Broadcast News) and I traveled to Seattle and then to Los Angeles to interview a number of Murrow alumni working in media. We spoke with them about their WSU experiences, career path, and advice for future students / industry professionals. For this project I acted a the Director and PR Coordinator, including all camera work, lighting, editing and technical coordination.
Live Blog
In addition to the final videos being prepared for the Murrow website and future promotional videos, we maintained a “live-blog” chronicling the road trip, interviews, and adventures along the way. This website (http://www.murrow-blog.com) was very successful with over 5,000 page hits and over 2,000 views of the videos over the 30 day promotional period. Based on the WordPress blogging platform I was able to customize this site under the WSU Identity and provide archives, commenting tools and embedded videos. Additionally we published a video podcast of our trip which is available on the iTunes Music Store as well as several other podcast directories.
Press Releases / News Articles
I was able to coordinate several news articles and press releases promoting the trip. Several of the stories and news releases are linked below: