Globally-broadcast technical direction via Hello World Communications.
Technical direction for the bicentennial broadcast through Hello World Communications — the production house engaged to deliver the event — with VAAV Industries on the technical lead. Multi-source remote inputs from heads of state in their respective offices. LiveU 4G-bonded transmitters for portable broadcast-grade signal paths. Multi-cam program output coordinated with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese’s distribution network for global reach. Latency-controlled inter-cuts between the remote talent feeds, the prepared-package segments, and the live moments.
The program ran on March 25, 2021. Heads of state landed their cues — His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Eastern Orthodox communion, was on the broadcast. The remote-talent feeds held. The Archdiocese distribution went out worldwide. The day the world turned Greek.
Beyond the day-of program, I oversaw the install of the broadcast system inside the Greek Orthodox church itself — bringing the proprietary knowledge from Skytron to bear on a religious-architectural space. The result: a 30-camera full-fledged events space built into a working church — one of the more unusual broadcast environments I’ve had to architect. The church can run a global broadcast today without rebuilding the rig, because I left the bones in.
The trust earned on this project led to a follow-on engagement the next year: in 2022, I was brought back to run and manage the live stream for the consecration of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine at Ground Zero — the rebuilt national shrine at the World Trade Center site — where Patriarch Bartholomew blessed the space. The same Patriarch. Twice on my broadcast desk inside thirteen months — once for the 200-year anniversary of Greek independence, once for the consecration of the rebuilt Ground Zero shrine. The 2022 re-engagement came through American Movie Company; the 2021 broadcast was Hello World Communications. Greek-broadcast trust now spans two production houses and two of the most consequential Greek Orthodox moments of the decade.
