Article: Home and Garden Television (NAB '97 Seller's Guide) (technology plans)(Brief Article)

Mark Hale not only keeps HGTV on the air, he also supervises operations for Cinetel Studios, a producer of shows for The Nashville Network (Club Dance) and Arts & Entertainment (America's Castles). Like HGTV, Cinetel is owned by the E.W. Scripps Co.

Hale's principal purpose at NAB will be to purchase hardware to complete the digital conversion of the 10-year-old studios. Armed with a capital budget of roughly $2 million, Hale says he will shop for an array of production equipment, including cameras, switchers and monitors. He's partial to Sony cameras, Philips routers, Barco monitors, Neve audio consoles, Leitch distribution amps and A-D converters.

Hale's budget does ...

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