CHRISTOPHER PAUL SCHACHTER 382 Central Park West, #18T
[email protected]
NY, New York
10025
212 665 0201
EXPERIENCE ABC SPORTS, NEW YORK, NY Current Associate Director (Directors Guild of America) Direct live national HD/SD studios during News, Sports and Entertainment programming airing commercial, promotion and show segments (Super Bowl, Indy 500, British Open). Coordinating Director for ABC’s College Football series including all Bowl and Championship telecasts. 7/00-7/01
Unit Production Manager - TV Sales and Promotion Support Oversee and coordinate the placement and airing of all sales, commercial and promotional inventory for ABC Sports programming including College Football, Auto Racing, Golf and Monday Night Football. Control live integration of commercial inventory utilizing nonlinear server based technologies. Coordinate with network sales, outside agencies and graphic artists to develop creative enhancements and copy for air.
8/96-7/00 FIFA World Cup
Operations Producer - College Football, Basketball, Wide World of Sports, Manage the distribution of regional multi-network sports programming, commercials and promotion to designated affiliate markets/stations. Coordinate all ENG crew hiring, satellite bookings and scheduling of multiple live shots for shows. Supervise and schedule all studio floor, control, tape, production facilities and union manpower. Manage multiple remote game feeds for satellite news gathering and highlight acquisition. Maintain budgetary control and provide weekly financial reports to comptrollers. Manage remote operations for special events programming. Liaise with ESPN to distribute “ESPN Gameplan” PPV programming.
ABC TELEVISION NETWORK, NEW YORK, NY 7/94-7/96 Manager, Program Operations Manage all broadcast day operations. Oversee and schedule twelve Operations Supervisors in the show formatting and execution of commercial/promo integration of all taped programs, live news and sports broadcasts. Coordinate regional networking for national distribution (commercial and program content) of all live sports/special events. Supervise quality control and repair of all network feeds. Coordinate and execute the recording, editing and airing of all delay broadcast events. Direct ABC network affiliates with all programming, formatting and procedural requirements. Manage database for net delay system using server based automation equipment. 4/97-8/97
Satellite & Telecommunications Supervisor Booked C/Ku band satellite, fiber optic, ISDN and dial tone facilities as requested by News, Sports, Radio and Entertainment divisions at ABC-TV for remote operations, inbound/outbound communications and network program distribution to the 225 ABCTV affiliates.
ABC SPORTS, NEW YORK, NY 8/91-12/92 College Football- Assistant to the Producer Researched and developed statistical material to use as graphics for live college football telecasts. Coordinated graphics during game. Responsible for hiring 8-10 assistants. 1/90-8/91
Professional Bowlers Tour/Pro Boxing Series- Production Assistant Coordinated graphics for 24 live remote telecasts across the country. Researched, organized and scouted locations for show's opening segments. Designed stage and set. Hired 6-8 freelance personnel for each broadcast.
EDUCATION New York University, BA History INTERESTS HS Varsity Golf, NYU Cross Country, College Club Soccer & Ice Hockey, United States Soccer Federation Licensed Coach, Compete in New York City, Boston and other Marathons.