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Floyd "Tommy" Webb
Public Broadcasting Services - 1972 - 1982
Ampex AVR 1 -
Videotape Operation
in "6A Control"
in "A/V Construction"
NBC-TV New York 2003 email:
Tommy Webb
The Board
Mr. Don Brown - Sanford, Florida
Mr. Joseph Brunson - Lake Mary, Florida
Ms. Joyce Zimmerman - Winter Park, Florida
Ms. Kim Satory - Winter Park, Florida
Mr. Clarence Winfield Jr, Orlando, Florida
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Floyd "Tommy" Webb, Executive Director
The
Community Television Workshop "thought" started with me more than 26
years
ago, in my hometown of Amityville, Long Island, New York. It came
from the thought I had
of the 'images' that I saw on tv after sitting in 'master control',
videotape operations, and
quality control at PBS-Washington, DC's television operation.
These images did not truly
reflect 'my reality' of me, my family and my community.
In 1982, I felt that I
knew enough about the television process, after 10 years at PBS, to
introduce television to my community, at the community level. I had the
thought that the images
that we see on television everyday, needed, at least to have our input.
Our communities needed
to be documented, by us. We needed to understand what this process
was all about, at the
community level.
I came to Sanford,
Central Florida in July, 2004 after having retired from NBC-TV with just
under 20 years, and was still of the thinking that I had a passion for
this visual medium and
a community commitment. This commitment was to "allow our youth to
experience learning
about this visual medium as I had, so that they may "realize OPTIONS"!
I
began my career at Public Broadcasting Services (PBS-Network),
Washington, DC in
January, 1972 in 'Technical Operations. To this moment, I still
think that PBS has,
possibly, the highest standards for television in the world. Most
every vendor of television
equipment for broadcast came there first. (And still, after 25
years out of PBS, I still say
"WE") developed Closed Captioned for the hearing impaired, stereo
television, and were
the first to use satellite technology to deliver a regularly scheduled
network feed to its 250
affiliated stations across the country and to Guam and Pago Pago, Samoa.
I resigned from PBS,
January, 1982 and with my family, we returned to New York.
( .... oh there is more ... but it's late ... and we
now have time ! )
* Cable Health Network ( now known as LifeTime TV )
* MTV ( Music Television )
* The Apollo Theatre
* NBC-TV ( National Broadcasting Company )
*
WebbRadio.com ( Internet Radio )
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