Category: Career & Leadership
Lessons from 25+ years in broadcast technology — leadership under live pressure, career longevity, and the craft behind keeping it on the air.
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The Calmest Person in the Room
Two directors, the same on-air mistake, opposite instincts. One berated the operator and made the broadcast worse; the other let it pass and fixed the cause after the show. Live broadcast teaches a form of leadership you can’t learn in a seminar.
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Curiosity and the Lost Art of Listening
The two skills that have earned their keep more than any certification or framework: curiosity, and quality listening. They sound soft. They’re not — they’re the difference between installing systems and solving problems.
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What Analog-to-Digital Taught Me About Every Transition Since
The tape-to-file transition delivered the efficiency it promised — and quietly deleted a quality check nobody had ever written down. Whenever a new technology promises to remove a step, ask first: what else was that step quietly doing?
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Why I’m Writing
This site has been a quiet place. That’s about to change — three threads on where our industry is heading, AI in media workflows, and lessons from 25+ years of live production.
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2024 Year in Review: Lessons and Milestones
It is not my style to hold on to the ways “we have always done it.” I don’t dwell on the way things are. However, reflecting on the past is always an important activity. It is crucial to learn from all the actions, experiments, learning,…
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20 years of fun at EVS
Today is a day in which I start a milestone in my career. So I decided to take a short reflection of the times at EVS and put them on paper (or digital bits of sorts). It began in 1999, my early days at EVS,…
James Stellpflug 