A brief overview of my career and experience in media sales, production and distribution.

1. ABOUT MICHAEL BILLINGSLEY
Producer / Director / Product Manager / Consultant / Spokesman
Michael Billingsley has been pioneer in lifestyle sports television programming
over the past 16 years. What makes his experience unique is the fact that he
created unique paths to own and distribute his television brands in a very
challenging media climate. Few sports based producer/directors have been
allowed to refine and test varying program styles like he has. Billingsley has
applied the combination of genres including the docu-magazine, reality,
biographical documentary, advertorial reality and feature driven event coverage
with lifestyle sports based content.
Through his company Action Media Group, Inc., dba Action Television, Michael
has successfully developed four long running national television series reaching
millions of viewers each year. First he established relationships to syndicate to
regional and national cable networks. Then he developed innovative
sponsorship packaging to support the programs. Finally he managed the
production and delivery of several complete series. His programs have won
many national awards and gained strong support on national broadcast and
cable networks. He has managed production of over 200 separate original
programs and multiple large event based television specials. From highly
technical remote multi-camera operations to single camera film production,
Billingsley can run crews and complete projects.
Here are some career highlights:
Produced and Directed 20 weekly episodes of his first local television
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series “The World of Skiing” in 1992 on his own, kicking off a 16 year
programming career.
Developed Ski TV, one of the longest running, widest reaching winter
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sports magazine television series of all time.
Produced, Directed, and Syndicated four separate television series with
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one or more shows in distribution every year since 1993
Hired as a nationally recognized spokesman and presenter for two
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international broadcast equipment and software companies. Performed as
feature presenter on national seminar tours and international trade shows
including National Association of Broadcasters, Siggraph and Comdex.
Produced many network broadcast event programs with multi-cam
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broadcast production including many live events with HDNet trucks in
challenging remote winter and mountain environments.

2. Multiple awards including current run of three years as winner of the
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television award from International Golf Network and Best of Show Denver
Video Festival.
Developed key business strategy and capitalization of a Youth Sports
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based video portal and social network. Authored the development
specifications while guiding the software planning and public launch of
online applications.
Developed and managed successful content management based video
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portal Internet Video Channel with streaming video and web-casting
clients such as Oppenheimer and Vail Resorts.
Chosen to establish and develop the video marketing department for Vail
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Resorts Corporate Management team.
Negotiated joint marketing partnership between Action Television
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properties and two major golf business media firms including Time, Inc.
Michael is an effective media writer and director with extensive experience
developing successful media campaigns and programming. You will rarely find a
person with the expertise in successfully navigating every facet of television
programming and video based media campaigns. From trade show
presentations to international product launches, online streaming to television
syndication Billingsley has applied his talent through all electronic media.
Billingsley has also been a consultant and product spokesman for leading
software companies over the past 15 years. He has worked with firms such as
Pinnacle Systems, Adobe Systems, Avid, Apple, Fast Multimedia and AIST.
Billingsley has presented long form seminars for small and large audiences,
hourly stage presentations at leading trade shows including NAB and private
consultation in dealer demo rooms to high level network executives. His
experience applying his craft through the growth of non-linear editing, digital
cable and Internet video delivery provides unique perspective and insight.